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The extraordinary's the norm.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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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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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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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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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
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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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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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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
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I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them they’re history. You’re in a darker place now.
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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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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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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.
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What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
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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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I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.
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Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
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The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
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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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I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
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