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I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.

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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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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Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
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I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.
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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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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
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Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.
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Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red.
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I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them they’re history. You’re in a darker place now.
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There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.
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My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
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Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.
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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
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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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We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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You just have to trust your own madness.
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The extraordinary's the norm.
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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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