Clive Barker Short Quotes

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Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.

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True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

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Being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.

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

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Every body is a book of blood;
Wherever we're opened, we're red.

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It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.

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I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

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Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite

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Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.

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She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

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Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

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Suzanna didn't wait for confirmation. There was no use disbelieving the worst now.

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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

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Believe nothing, Apolline advised. This woman wouldn't know the truth if it fucked her.

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She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

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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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What the enemy believed of you was probably true, or else why were you enemies in the first place?

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Don't worry, he told her.
Me? she said. I never worry. It's all going to end badly whether I worry or not.

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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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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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There's no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn't know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

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To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

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Life is short,
and pleasures few,
and holed the ship,
and drowned the crew,
But O! But O!
How very blue
the sea is!

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We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

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She told him she made a rule of never marrying bankers. The next day he sent flowers, and a note saying that he'd relinquished his profession.

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Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

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Lilia sighed. Why me? she said, still shaking. Why should I have to tell it?
Because you're the best liar, Jerichau replied with a tight smile. You can make it true.

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There was such sanity in his voice; a politician's sanity, as he sold his flock the wisdom of the bomb. This soulless certainty was more chilling than hysteria or malice.

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His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.

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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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