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Metaphor is embodied in language.

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

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Dennis Potter

Order

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.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Dennis Potter

Trouble

Words

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

Dennis Potter

Myth

Therapy

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

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

People

May

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

Dennis Potter

Work

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.

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

Knowledge

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

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

Dennis Potter

Television

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

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

Religion