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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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You just have to trust your own madness.
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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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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
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No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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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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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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Give me B movies or give me death!
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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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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Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
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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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