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" 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. "
― Dennis Potter , The Singing Detective
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" . . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know. There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. "
― Dennis Potter , Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture
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" Me habría resultado igual de fácil hacer que Miller escribiera sobre Hazlitt o Southey o De Quincey, pues sé mucho sobre ese grupo concreto. Vivieron y trabajaron, en tiempos más cultos, epistolares y ambulantes, cuando la relación entre escritores podía ser tan complicada y febril, tan devoradora, humillante para uno mismo o mutuamente esclarecedora como aquella que existe de forma natural entre amantes consternados y entusiasmados por el delicado equilibro de la dependencia entre ambos. Hoy en día, los escritores se cruzan monosílabos idiotas al teléfono, o se encorvan sobre mesas rematadas con melanina en las cantinas de las fábricas de sueños sosteniendo la cabeza con las manos. Hemos perdido demasiado, y lo hemos perdido para siempre. "
― Dennis Potter , Hide and Seek
