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Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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Well, it was most likely too late there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things but large enough to regret.
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Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
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Everything is in flux: everything changes the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.
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Have patience the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.
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What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
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O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.
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All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night
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His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.
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I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.
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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.
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Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
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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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Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.
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