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No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
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Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.
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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.
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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red.
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I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them they’re history. You’re in a darker place now.
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I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed New states, new souls.
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Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.
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Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.
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