Quotes by Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to...

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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for...

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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

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Everything we do has consequences.

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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very...

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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind...

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