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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
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You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.
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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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We are all our own graveyards, I believe we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
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One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.
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Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.
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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
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I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
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I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again - -I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter.
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Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
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Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
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Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red.
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It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.
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