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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again - -I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter.
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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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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Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.
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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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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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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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Give me B movies or give me death!
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.
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What worth was a man who could not be haunted?
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Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.
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