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There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

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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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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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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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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My feet are killing me. I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally.
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Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
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Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.
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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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Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.
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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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I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.
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No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
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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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I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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