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What worth was a man who could not be haunted?
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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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 really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.
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Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
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The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment of Reformation of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages an end, perhaps, to everything.
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I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.
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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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The extraordinary's the norm.
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Give me B movies or give me death!
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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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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
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Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
Clive Barker
To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
Clive Barker
You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.
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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!
Clive Barker
Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
Clive Barker
Never believe your eyes
Clive Barker
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.
Clive Barker
No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
Clive Barker
