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Everything we do has consequences.

Dennis Potter

Consequences

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

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Art

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

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Emotions

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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Ideals

Word

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

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Talent

Obligation

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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Childhood

Land

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

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Age

Talent

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

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Illness

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

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Criticism

Writing

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

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

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

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Children

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.

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

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People

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

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Love