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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.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Act Bad Bad Things Create Creates Done Goodness Only Own Things Way Will Yeast

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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.

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Topics: Also Childhood Eden Every Experienced Leave Loss Magic Pains Personally Terrors Us Wonder

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Everything we do has consequences.

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Topics: Consequences Everything

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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Children Poetry Poets Puberty Reach Stop Then Unless Write

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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Adult Callous Enough Enough People Know More People Very

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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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Topics: Childhood Everyone Land Lost Think I Think

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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Did Dread Fully Illness Myself Saw Term Terminal Understand Until

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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

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Topics: Been Know Mouths Never Trouble Whose Words You

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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: About Assert Be Yourself Order Something You Yourself

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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Love Much Obscure See To Love Too Too Much

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 17th, 1935

Died: June 7th, 1994

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