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We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

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

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

The Singing Detective

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council,...

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The Singing Detective

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it ...

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Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture

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Dennis Potter

Dramatist

Born: 1935-05-17

Died: 1994-06-07

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June, 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best remembered for scripts which mixed autobiographical elements with social history and fantasy. Potter's plays occasionally incorporated elements of popular culture (characters miming to popular songs) and adult actors performing as children.More