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I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
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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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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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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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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
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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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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
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Give me B movies or give me death!
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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The extraordinary's the norm.
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.
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Never believe your eyes
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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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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
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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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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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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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