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Dennis Potter

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

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

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"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

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"When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do."

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"The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image."

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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."
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"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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"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."
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"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."
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"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."
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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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