"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."
-Dennis Potter
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"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.“
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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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"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
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