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Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

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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Always, worlds within worlds.
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Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red.
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One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.
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Have patience the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.
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Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.
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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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Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.
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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
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How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
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Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.
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Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light it makes us crazy and sad.
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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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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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There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.
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Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree!
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My feet are killing me. I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally.
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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
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