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Source: Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture
“We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.”
Source: An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994
“A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.”
“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”
“I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.”
“The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.”
“As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.”
“Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.”
“Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.”
“God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.”
“I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.”
“I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.”
“Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises”
Source: Waiting for the Boat: On Television
“Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.”
“You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.”
“The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.”
“It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.”
“That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.”
Source: The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953–1994
“Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.”
Source: An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994
“To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.”