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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

Topics: Corrupt Deal Endure Excess Lead May People Sort Them

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Metaphor is embodied in language.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Embodied Language Metaphor

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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

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Topics: Art Bad Definitions Just Letting Out

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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

~Dennis Potter

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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Across Ideals Jump Printed Word

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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

~Dennis Potter

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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Age Aware Been Had Talent

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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Believe Everybody Responsible Themselves I Believe

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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Even God Lazy Names New Think Up Writer

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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

~Dennis Potter

Topics: Children Course Creatures Cruel Extraordinarily Little Very Yes

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 17th, 1935

Died: June 7th, 1994

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