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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

Know

Evening

Better

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" The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was. "

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Away

" Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. "

" Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that. "

" You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. "

" Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. "

" I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings. "

" I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do. "

" 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. "

" Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero. "

" 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. "

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Puzzle

Long Time

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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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