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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.
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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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My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
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Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.
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Everything is in flux: everything changes the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.
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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
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Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree!
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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.
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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
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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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Give me B movies or give me death!
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The extraordinary's the norm.
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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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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Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.
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