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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
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Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.
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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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I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
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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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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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Always, worlds within worlds.
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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
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The extraordinary's the norm.
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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.
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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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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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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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Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.
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