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I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed New states, new souls.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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City of Liverpool
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.
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By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work even if they don't feel like it. Anybody can get maudlin and decide to write poetry at 11 at night the question is, can you do it at 8:30 on a Monday morning..?
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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.
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Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
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Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
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I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .
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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
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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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Why'd you want to sing about sad things? Candy had asked him. Because any fool can be happy, he'd said to her. It takes a man with real heart —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
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Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
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Believe me, when I say There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat
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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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