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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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There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.
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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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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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Give me B movies or give me death!
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You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.
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Never believe your eyes
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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.
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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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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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Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.
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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
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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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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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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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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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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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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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I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.
Clive Barker
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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