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You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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City of Liverpool
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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.
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But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.
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I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
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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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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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Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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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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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
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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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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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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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Well, it was most likely too late there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things but large enough to regret.
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Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
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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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Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red.
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