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Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.
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Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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The extraordinary's the norm.
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Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree!
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Always, worlds within worlds.
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Well, it was most likely too late there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things but large enough to regret.
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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
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