Dennis Potter Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Dennis Potter quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased dramatist born on May 17, 1935). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 31 we have for him.
“As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.”
“Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.”
“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.”
“Metaphor is embodied in language.”
“People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.”
“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 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.”
“God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.”
“Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.”
“That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.”
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