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Tale Quotes by Clive Barker
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
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