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All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
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We are all our own graveyards, I believe we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
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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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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
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Always, worlds within worlds.
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The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
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Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
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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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You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.
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I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again - -I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter.
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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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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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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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What worth was a man who could not be haunted?
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