Quotes by Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn’t know you knew.

Helping

Knows

Shows

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

Children

Poet

Writing

Everything we do has consequences.

Consequence

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

Lazy

Names

Thinking

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people’s mouths: vomit.

Art

Believe

People

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Believe

I Believe

Responsible

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

Age

Has Beens

Talent

I haven’t had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I’m quite happy to go.

Dying

Regret

Single Mom

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Childhood

Land

Thinking

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

Given

Talent

Use

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Given

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Helping

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Humans

I Believe

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Instant

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Lazy

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May

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Quotes by Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn’t know you knew.

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

Everything we do has consequences.

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

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people’s mouths: vomit.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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

I haven’t had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I’m quite happy to go.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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

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