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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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You just have to trust your own madness.
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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
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Why'd you want to sing about sad things? Candy had asked him. Because any fool can be happy, he'd said to her. It takes a man with real heart —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
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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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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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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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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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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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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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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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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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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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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.
Clive Barker
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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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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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
Clive Barker
Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
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Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.
Clive Barker
No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
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