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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.
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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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
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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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Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
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Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red.
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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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