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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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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment of Reformation of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages an end, perhaps, to everything.
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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 don't take accusations of selling out lightly.
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Well, it was most likely too late there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things but large enough to regret.
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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.
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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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You just have to trust your own madness.
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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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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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Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.
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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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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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I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.
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With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.
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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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Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
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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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