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There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

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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Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.
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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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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
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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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You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.
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Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.
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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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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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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
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Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
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Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.
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