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 More Quotes by Dennis Potter More Quotes From Dennis Potter I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. Dennis Potter airports fear travel The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. Dennis Potter trouble mouths knows Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. Dennis Potter political animal important-choices Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. Dennis Potter analysis creative beautiful That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. Dennis Potter vision common culture Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage. Dennis Potter bandages wounds religion Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter metaphor language I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit. Dennis Potter believe people art To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. Dennis Potter obscure too-much You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. Dennis Potter use young writing Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. Dennis Potter childhood fatherhood personality 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 pain eden loss The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. Dennis Potter loses humans children Everything we do has consequences. Dennis Potter consequence People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. Dennis Potter excess may people Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. Dennis Potter filth television Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. Dennis Potter definitions art 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. Dennis Potter analysis writing fiction As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. Dennis Potter adults enough people Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. Dennis Potter creatures littles children
