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Believe nothing, Apolline advised. This woman wouldn't know the truth if it fucked her.
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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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Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
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By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead – or behind – everybody else's taste. And I'm not really convinced I'd like it to change. There's something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It's the wild-dog genre.
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My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.
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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
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Here is a list of fearful things:
The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,
The rabid bite of the dog's of war,
The voice of one who went before.
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
which counts us out our numbered days.
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There's no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn't know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.
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Are you coming? he said.
In a moment.
It's now or never.
Maybe it would be never, then. She was so transfixed by the formidable power being unleashed in front of her, she couldn't avert her astonished gaze. It fascinated her that strength of this magnitude should be turned to the sordid business of atrocity; something was wrong with a reality that made that possible, and offered no cure for it, nor hope of cure.
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Flesh is our indisputable commonality. Whatever our race, our religion, our politics we are faced every morning with the fact of our bodies. Their frailties, their demands, their desires. And yet the erotic appetites that spring from - and are expressed through - those bodies, are so often a source of bitter dissension and division. Acts that offer a glimpse of transcendence to one group are condemned by another. We are pressured from every side - by peers, by church, by state - to accept the consensual definition of taboo; though so often what excites our imaginations most is the violation of taboo.
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To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
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True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.
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So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
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It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.
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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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Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
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Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.
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"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself.
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The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, "let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible." I have lingered, of course.
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Suzanna didn't wait for confirmation. There was no use disbelieving the worst now.
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Being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.
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Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman's face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you'd been before.
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She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.
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Clive Barker
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Born:
October 5, 1952
(age 71)
Bio:
Clive Barker is an English writer, film director, and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction.
Known for:
Hellraiser (1987)
Nightbreed (1990)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Lord of Illusions (1995)
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
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