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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.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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City of Liverpool
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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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All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.
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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.
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There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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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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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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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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The extraordinary's the norm.
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My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
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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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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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Believe me, when I say There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat
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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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What worth was a man who could not be haunted?
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I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.
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