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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.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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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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All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night
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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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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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I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.
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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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So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
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Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
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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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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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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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Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
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I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.
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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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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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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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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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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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I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
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We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.
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