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You just have to trust your own madness.
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’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.
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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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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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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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I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.
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One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.
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The extraordinary's the norm.
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No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
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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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O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.
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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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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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Never believe your eyes
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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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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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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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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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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
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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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