Clive Barker quotes - page 3

Always, worlds within worlds. (Clive Barker)

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

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Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

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The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

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Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they're feeling righteous.

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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.

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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

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Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

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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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She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. (Clive Barker)

With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

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Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now.

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The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

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She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a sadist of her.

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Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.

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I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls.

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you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

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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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No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

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It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase "It's a small world”. It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone. (Clive Barker)

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

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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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A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

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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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Clive Barker

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Occupation: English Author
Born: October 5, 1952
Quotes count: 121
Wikipedia: Clive Barker

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