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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.
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You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.
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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment of Reformation of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages an end, perhaps, to everything.
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Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.
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I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.
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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
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I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.
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The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
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Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.
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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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