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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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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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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
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Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it. I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far.
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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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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
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The extraordinary's the norm.
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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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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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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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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'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.
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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.
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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'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
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Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
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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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Never believe your eyes
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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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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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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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