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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.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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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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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.
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So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
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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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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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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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Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.
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Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
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