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Clive Barker quotes: Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ... Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ...
Clive Barker quotes: The Monastery of the Cenobitical Order was a large-walled compound built seven hundred thousand years ago on a damned-made hill of stone and cement. The Monastery of the Cenobitical Order was a large-walled compound built seven hundred thousand years ago on a damned-made hill of stone and cement.
Clive Barker quotes: I know many a strong man undone by marriage. I know many a strong man undone by marriage.
Clive Barker quotes: 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. 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.
Clive Barker quotes: All rising to great place is by a winding stair. - Sir Francis Bacon, All rising to great place is by a winding stair. - Sir Francis Bacon,
Clive Barker quotes: Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move? Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?
Clive Barker quotes: Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful
Clive Barker quotes: There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs? There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?
Clive Barker quotes: The scent of sweet cherry had attracted hundreds of ants. They were crawling over it and into it, many drowning for their greed. The scent of sweet cherry had attracted hundreds of ants. They were crawling over it and into it, many drowning for their greed.
Clive Barker quotes: I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
Clive Barker quotes: Sounds to me like those nails are touching too much gray matter. Sounds to me like those nails are touching too much gray matter.
Clive Barker quotes: Her mother had always said that women, being more at peace with themselves than men, needed fewer distractions from their hurts. Her mother had always said that women, being more at peace with themselves than men, needed fewer distractions from their hurts.
Clive Barker quotes: I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Clive Barker quotes: So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring. So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.
Clive Barker quotes: Revulsion gave heat to his heals. Revulsion gave heat to his heals.
Clive Barker quotes: You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people. You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
Clive Barker quotes: And this story, having no beginning, will have no end. And this story, having no beginning, will have no end.
Clive Barker quotes: Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite. Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.
Clive Barker quotes: Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads. Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
Clive Barker quotes: Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand. Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.
Clive Barker quotes: To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
Clive Barker quotes: Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that. Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that.
Clive Barker quotes: Behind stone, with stone, carrying stone Behind stone, with stone, carrying stone
Clive Barker quotes: The dead have highways." Clive Barker The dead have highways." Clive Barker
Clive Barker quotes: I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.
Clive Barker quotes: Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible. Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible.
Clive Barker quotes: Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics. Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.
Clive Barker quotes: You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.
Clive Barker quotes: You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug. You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.
Clive Barker quotes: I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do. I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.
Clive Barker quotes: Hell was easy; romance was hard. Hell was easy; romance was hard.
Clive Barker quotes: But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. 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 quotes: I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence. I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Clive Barker quotes: Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high. Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high.
Clive Barker quotes: Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully. Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.
Clive Barker quotes: Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love. Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
Clive Barker quotes: There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation. There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.
Clive Barker quotes: You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude. You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude.
Clive Barker quotes: Putting down the devil was the Lord's own sport. Putting down the devil was the Lord's own sport.
Clive Barker quotes: All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.
Clive Barker quotes: There was a memory and a promise of blood in the air. There was a memory and a promise of blood in the air.
Clive Barker quotes: There's no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn't know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. There's no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn't know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.
Clive Barker quotes: You've always got me""Always?""Didn't I just say so?""Yes""Am I liar? ""No." I lied. You've always got me"
"Always?"
"Didn't I just say so?"
"Yes"
"Am I liar? "
"No." I lied.
Clive Barker quotes: My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
Clive Barker quotes: I am not your Father. I am but a child, like you. Afraid, like you. Fearing sometimes, as you fear. I am not your Father. I am but a child, like you. Afraid, like you. Fearing sometimes, as you fear.
Clive Barker quotes: She slipped away unseen, like a shadow's shadow. She slipped away unseen, like a shadow's shadow.
Clive Barker quotes: I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together. I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.
Clive Barker quotes: 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! 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!
Clive Barker quotes: Being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did. Being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.
Clive Barker quotes: There's nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him," Zeffer pointed out. "He wouldn't do it for you." "I know that. There's nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him," Zeffer pointed out. "He wouldn't do it for you." "I know that.
Clive Barker quotes: Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope. Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope.
Clive Barker quotes: I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life. I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.
Clive Barker quotes: Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you. Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.
Clive Barker quotes: Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts
Clive Barker quotes: 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. 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.
Clive Barker quotes: Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings. Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
Clive Barker quotes: He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood. He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood.
Clive Barker quotes: Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing? Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing?
Clive Barker quotes: A monster lies in wait in me,A stew of wounds and misery,But fiercer still in life and limb,The me that lies in wait in him. A monster lies in wait in me,
A stew of wounds and misery,
But fiercer still in life and limb,
The me that lies in wait in him.
Clive Barker quotes: I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician. I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.
Clive Barker quotes: He had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. He had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
Clive Barker quotes: ( ... ) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart. ( ... ) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.
Clive Barker quotes: After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder? After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
Clive Barker quotes: That which is imagined can never be lost. That which is imagined can never be lost.
Clive Barker quotes: One man's pornography is another man's theology. One man's pornography is another man's theology.
Clive Barker quotes: Always, worlds within worlds. Always, worlds within worlds.
Clive Barker quotes: You want my advice!Kiss the Devil, eat the worm. Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade You want my advice!
Kiss the Devil, eat the worm.
Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade
Clive Barker quotes: Was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head. Was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.
Clive Barker quotes: Fear is a place where you just tell the truth Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
Clive Barker quotes: We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad. We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
Clive Barker quotes: We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring. We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.
Clive Barker quotes: This kind of business (murder) required detachment. The trick was to do it almost casually, as you might flick on the radio, or swat a mosquito. This kind of business (murder) required detachment. The trick was to do it almost casually, as you might flick on the radio, or swat a mosquito.
Clive Barker quotes: All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin
Clive Barker quotes: We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.
Clive Barker quotes: It's always what may not be shown that shows the most. Forbidden words are always the most eloquent. It's always what may not be shown that shows the most. Forbidden words are always the most eloquent.
Clive Barker quotes: Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves. Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.
Clive Barker quotes: Life is shortAnd pleasures fewAnd holed the shipAnd drowned the crewBut o! But o!How very bluethe sea is. Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.
Clive Barker quotes: All the great powers in the world are blood-suckers and soul-stealers at heart. All the great powers in the world are blood-suckers and soul-stealers at heart.
Clive Barker quotes: Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
Clive Barker quotes: She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
Clive Barker quotes: Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees? Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees?
Clive Barker quotes: My skull was a face that concealed scorpions. My skull was a face that concealed scorpions.
Clive Barker quotes: Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than I'll never leave you. Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than I'll never leave you.
Clive Barker quotes: I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick. I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick.
Clive Barker quotes: This was the nadir, surely. They had no further to fall. This was the nadir, surely. They had no further to fall.
Clive Barker quotes: I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books. I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.
Clive Barker quotes: We're living; but we impersonate the dead better than the dead themselves. We're living; but we impersonate the dead better than the dead themselves.
Clive Barker quotes: Never believe your eyes Never believe your eyes
Clive Barker quotes: Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that. Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that.
Clive Barker quotes: My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
Clive Barker quotes: The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all. The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
Clive Barker quotes: I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that. I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.
Clive Barker quotes: Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
Clive Barker quotes: She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence. She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.
Clive Barker quotes: There's no delight the equal of dread. There's no delight the equal of dread.
Clive Barker quotes: They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you. They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you.
Clive Barker quotes: I don't take accusations of selling out lightly. I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.
Clive Barker quotes: Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Clive Barker quotes: Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later. Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later.
Clive Barker quotes: I am inevitable. I am inevitable.

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