"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.“
-Dennis Potter
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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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"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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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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