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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.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.
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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.
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