We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. - Dennis Potter
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
- Dennis Potter
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. - Dennis Potter
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there. - Dennis Potter
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage. - Dennis Potter
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. - Dennis Potter
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Everything we do has consequences. - Dennis Potter
Everything we do has consequences.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. - Dennis Potter
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood. - Dennis Potter
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew. - Dennis Potter
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
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