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Dennis Potter
May 17, 1935 - June 7, 1994
Nationality: British
Category: Dramatist
Subcategory: British Dramatist

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

   

Everything we do has consequences.

   

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

   

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

   

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

   

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

   

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

   

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