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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.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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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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Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
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Have patience the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.
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Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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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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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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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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Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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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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I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.
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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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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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Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red.
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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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