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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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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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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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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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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
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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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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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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.
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Have patience the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.
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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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