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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.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.
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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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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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Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
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Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.
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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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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
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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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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
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Give me B movies or give me death!
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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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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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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.
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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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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night
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But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.
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There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.
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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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