Dennis Potter Quotes
Top 39 wise famous quotes and sayings by Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Dennis Potter on Wise Famous Quotes.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
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 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 bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.