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There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.

~Clive Barker

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Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Being Bypass Class Fact Filmmaking Films Horror Horror Films Only People Proud Second Some Some People Sort Think Thinking Way

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Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.

~Clive Barker

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My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange little toys. One of the things he brought back was a puzzle box, which obsessed me for a long time.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Back Box Brought Came Cook East Far Grandfather He Little Long Long Time Me Obsessed Often One Of The Things Puzzle Ship Strange Things Time Toys Very Which

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There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

~Clive Barker

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I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.

~Clive Barker

Topics: About Cliches Continue Doing Dreary Fact Gay Happens Hear Hear People Life Living Long Long Time Man Men Old Out Pay People Price Rapture Same Something Spit Time Tiring Unnatural

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I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.

~Clive Barker

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Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn't think they were.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Although Being Blood Books Cries Did Excessive God Horror Interestingly Knows Particularly Righteous Them Think Time Were

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'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Consensus Depending Does General Gospels High Low Mark New Point Point Of View Scarlet Seem View Your

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I'm feeling much better than I have been for many years. You know, I... there have been a couple of days when I thought maybe I wasn't going to make it to the evening. I don't feel that anymore.

~Clive Barker

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 5th, 1952

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