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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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City of Liverpool
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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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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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
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Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
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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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By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work even if they don't feel like it. Anybody can get maudlin and decide to write poetry at 11 at night the question is, can you do it at 8:30 on a Monday morning..?
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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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I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
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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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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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Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.
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The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
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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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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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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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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
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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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