The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
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.
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage. - Dennis Potter
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
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
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.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. - Dennis Potter
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
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.
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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