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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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The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment of Reformation of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages an end, perhaps, to everything.
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Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
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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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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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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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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
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Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.
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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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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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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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Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.
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Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.
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I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.
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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
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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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You just have to trust your own madness.
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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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You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.
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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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