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From Quotes by Clive Barker
- Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
- Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror…
- And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never…
- Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything…
- For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from…
- 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…
- 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.
- There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or…
- Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be…
- ..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken…
- Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,…
- There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love…
- ‎"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions…
- 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…
- Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or…
- I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left…
- Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in…
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