Top 100 Quotes About Clive Barker

#1. After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?

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#2. 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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#3. Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now.

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#4. Fear is a place where you just tell the truth

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#5. There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.

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#6. All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin

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#7. Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

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#8. Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts

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#9. 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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#10. We made our choice, he said. We hunted for them, we guarded their brats. God knows, we helped them make a civilization, didn't we? And why?
I said I didn't know; it was beyond me. Because, he said, we thought they knew how to take care of things. How to keep the world full of meat and flowers.

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#11. Books are like people, when they are open they are red

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#12. I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .

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#13. I will treat you with my knife the way you've treated my pages with your merciless eyes. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.

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#14. Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.

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#15. You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.

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#16. Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.

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#17. Sweets to the sweet," he murmured,

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#18. What do the good know?' he said. 'Except what the bad teach them by their excesses?

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#19. Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.

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#20. Everywhere, in the wreckage around him, he found evidence to support the same bitter thesis: that he had encountered nothing in his life - no person, no state of mind or body - he wanted sufficiently to suffer even passing discomfort for.

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#21. Is there any good news?' Tesla said.
Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?

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#22. There's no delight the equal of dread.

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#23. He'd fill every moment with the seasons he'd found in his heart: hopes like birds on a spring branch; happiness like a warm summer sun; magic like the rising mists of autumn. And best of all, love; love enough for a thousand Christmases.

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#24. First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in this book, for instance)

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#25. It was what his mother would have done in the circumstances. Boiled some fresh water, warmed the pot and counted out the spoonfuls of tea. Setting domestic order against the chaos, in the hope of winning some temporary reprieve from the vale of tears.

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#26. The extraordinary's the norm.

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#27. 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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#28. I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

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#29. You've always got me"
"Always?"
"Didn't I just say so?"
"Yes"
"Am I liar? "
"No." I lied.

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#30. I keep a bedside journal. I am very affected by dream information. They might be scary to other people, but they're mine, so they don't feel scary. I'd wake up in a cold sweat if I didn't dream these things ...

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#31. Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window, there
hanging between the bare branches of the trees
was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile.

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#32. He spoke of both dancing and death with equal nonchalance, as though one carried as little significance as the other. It calmed her, hearing him talk that way.

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#33. 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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#34. Women had always existed: they had lived, a species to themselves, with the demons. But they had wanted playmates: and together they had made men. What an error, what a cataclysmic miscalculation.

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#35. Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees?

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#36. This is a forsaken place ... I can think of no use for a place like this, except that you could say of it: I saw the heart of nothing, and survived.

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#37. The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.

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#38. 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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#39. I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.

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#40. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.

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#41. That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true."
"That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.

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#42. Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.

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#43. 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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#44. To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

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#45. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

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#46. It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase "It's a small world". It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone.

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#47. I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

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#48. There's nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him," Zeffer pointed out. "He wouldn't do it for you." "I know that.

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#49. To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band' ... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.

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#50. I have such sights to show you. Soon, you will have answers to questions you have never even dared to ask.

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#51. What are you trying to prove? Do you think if you kill enough people in the worst ways imaginable they'll give you a name like the Madman, or the Butcher? It doesn't matter how many abhorrent tortures you devise. You'll always be the Pinhead.

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#52. My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

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#53. This will not come again. Nor this. Nor this....

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#54. Always, worlds within worlds.

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#55. Sounds to me like those nails are touching too much gray matter.

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#56. Isn't there anything you care about?" "All is death, woman. All is pain. Love breeds loss. Isolation breeds resentment. No matter which way we turn, we are beaten. Our only true inheritance is death. And our only legacy, dust.

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#57. In my mind the river flows both ways. Forward, to the explanation of things; to a destination which will justify the agonies of travel. And back, back to a time when the river was real, and those who wandered along its banks had little interest in visions.

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#58. Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing?

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#59. Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on Sunset Boulevard, do they wipe their clammy palms, and wonder to themselves how it was that in such a harmless

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#60. That's fucked," he remarked, sounding a damn sight less nonchalant than he felt.

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#61. I decided that I would do my best to be the worst thing Hell ever vomited forth.

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#62. There was a memory and a promise of blood in the air.

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#63. But as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction.

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#64. Beautiful," Grillo said.
"Would Swift approve?"
"Fuck Swift."
"Somebody should have.

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#65. Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.

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#66. You want my advice!
Kiss the Devil, eat the worm.
Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade

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#67. It feels like I've died," he said to Caz when he'd finished.
"Well, you didn't."
"And I should be grateful, right?"
"Right."
"Well, I'm not.

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#68. Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

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#69. I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! There are no words -how can there be?- to describe what it feels like to become words, to feel your life encoded, and laid out in black ink on white paper. All my love and hatred, melted into words. It was like the End of the World.

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#70. I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

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#71. Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

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#72. The question that lay before me, and I had so far failed to answer, was the way these connections might best be expressed. My mind was filled with possibilities but I had no real sense of how all that I knew was arrayed and dispersed; no sense of the pattern.

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#73. In my Art
I have but
one fear:
that we will
fail to be
fearless.

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#74. I'm not afraid," he said. "What's the use of fear? You can't buy it or sell it, you can't make love to it. You can't even wear it if they strip off your shirt and you're cold.

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#75. So many masks. Was she the only one who had no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind?

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#76. Here was a place sacred to the dead, who were not the living ceased, but almost another species, requiring rites and prayers that belonged uniquely to them.

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#77. That which is imagined need never be lost.

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#78. You're being watched too, remember?"
"I wasn't aware - "
"That some of the screens you're looking at are looking at you?"
"Yes."
"Well, they are.

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#79. Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning.

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#80. Midian is where the monsters go.

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#81. What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe.

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#82. There were no chambers now along the passageway and consequently no lights. There was a glow up ahead, however - fitful and cold, but bright enough to illuminate both the ground she stumbled over, which was bare earth, and the silvery frost on the walls.

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#83. All rising to great place is by a winding stair. - Sir Francis Bacon,

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#84. Then we realized that your Kind like to make laws. Like to decree what's what, and whether it's good or not. And the world, being a loving thing, and not wishing to disappoint you or distress you, indulges you. Behaves as though your doctrines are in some way absolute.

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#85. I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick.

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#86. Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

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#87. Dream!
Forge yourself and rise
Out of your mind and into others.
Men, be women.
Fish, be flies.
Girls, take beards.
Sons, be your mothers.
The future of the world now lies
In coral wombs behind our eyes.

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#88. Give me B movies or give me death!

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#89. She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.

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#90. Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years.

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#91. ... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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#92. Its face crinkled up grotesquely, the eyes narrowing like those of a laughing Buddha, the lips peeling back to expose a sickle of brilliant teeth.

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#93. Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible.

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#94. Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

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#95. We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but - " He shrugged. " - so would you if it was always fish.

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#96. He gave a moment's consideration to the possibility of lingering to wash his face and hands (maybe even to changing his puke-splattered shirt), but he decided to forgo cleanliness in favor of making a fast exit.

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#97. Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they're feeling righteous.

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#98. I certainly knew from an early age ... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

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#99. The sight of her had pierced him, making her the enterer, had she but known it, and him the entered. Perhaps she had known, on reflection. Perhaps she'd fled from his passivity, from his ease beneath the spike of her beauty. If so, he would undo her revulsion with tonight's business. Here,

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#100. Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?

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