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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

Topics: Analysis Because Critics End Fiction Impulse Put Tell Work Write You

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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Analysis Beautiful Construct Creative Myth Opposed Therapy Whole

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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: About Act Down Imagination Must Own Putting Some Thing Truth Very

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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Amazing Create Human Leap Metaphor Speech Strangest Thing Writing

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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Improves More Myself Surely Tame Work

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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

Topics: About Child Human Knowledge Lose Must Necessarily Something

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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Common Culture Now Remote Simply Vision

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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Filth Me Television Mr

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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Childhood Continually Images Parcel Part Part And Parcel Personality Some Symbols Will Words

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Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Believe Either Handle Just Know Religion You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 17th, 1935

Died: June 7th, 1994

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