Clive Barker quotes - page 2

She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing. (Clive Barker)
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you. View quote
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He would be vigilant, but he would anticipate nothing, neither disaster nor revelation. That was not to say he would give up looking to the future. True, he was just a Cuckoo: scared and weary and alone. But so, in the end were most of his tribe: it didn't mean all was lost. As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of lovers reunited; as long as there was room in their cautious hearts for games of chance, and laughter in the face of God, that must surely be enough to save them, at the last. If not, there was no hope for any living thing. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the reasons why I don't get on with most fantasy writing - enchanted sword fantasy writing - is because I think it's emotionally untrue. People behave in very simple ways, unparadoxical ways. What I'm trying to do is bring into fantasy - as I hope I've been able to bring to horror - a certain kind of emotional realism. People have mentioned sex as being a major part of my fiction. An awful lot of horror fiction simply never contained that kind of material. Which seems to me to be extraordinary because most horror fiction is about the body in some way or other, and therefore it should be about sensuality and eroticism every bit as much as it's about corruption. View quote
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And us?” said the Hag. "What happens to us then? Will we be free?” "That's what we agreed.” "We can go into extinction?” "If that's what you want.” "More than anything,” said the Hag. "More than anything.” "There are worse things than existence,” said Immacolata. "Oh?” the Hag replied. "Can you name one?” Immacolata thought for a short while. "No,” she conceded, with a soft sigh of distress. "You may be right, sister. View quote
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Don't worry,” he told her. "Me?” she said. "I never worry. It's all going to end badly whether I worry or not. View quote
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My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. View quote
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Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love. View quote
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Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality! View quote
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We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else. (Clive Barker)
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love. View quote
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She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence. View quote
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Give me B movies or give me death! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever. View quote
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...there's nothing in the world more fun than doing something you're good at. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. (Clive Barker)
Words are sexier than flesh. View quote
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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings. View quote
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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. View quote
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad. View quote
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