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1. "And to think, she'd once had the hots for him, back in the old days (six months ago) when razor-thin men with noses like Durante and an encyclopaedic knowledge of de Niro movies had really been her style. Now she saw him for what he was, flotsam from a lost ship of hope. Still a pill-freak, still a theoretical bisexual, still devoted to early Polanski movies and symbolic pacifism." ~ Clive Barker
2. "What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe." ~ Clive Barker
3. "However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the sky was blue, the grass was green. What more did he need to know?" ~ Clive Barker
4. "Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope." ~ Clive Barker
5. "They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you." ~ Clive Barker
6. "As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of lovers reunited; as long as there was room in their cautious hearts for games of chance, and laughter in the face of God, that must surely be enough to save them, at the last. If not, there was no hope for any living thing." ~ Clive Barker
7. "The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive." ~ Clive Barker
8. "To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels." ~ Clive Barker
9. "Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty." ~ Clive Barker
10. "We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad." ~ Clive Barker
11. "You want my advice!Kiss the Devil, eat the worm. -- Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade" ~ Clive Barker
12. "There was a memory and a promise of blood in the air." ~ Clive Barker
13. "Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on Sunset Boulevard, do they wipe their clammy palms, and wonder to themselves how it was that in such a harmless" ~ Clive Barker
14. "Men and your hunts," Lilith went on, addressing, it seemed, some larger error in the Duke's sex. "If you hadn't been out killing healthy stags and boars in the first place, you could have married and lived and loved. But"—she shrugged—"we do as our instincts dictate, yes? And yours brought you here. To the very edge of your own grave." ~ Clive Barker
15. "We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but —" He shrugged. "— so would you if it was always fish." ~ Clive Barker
16. "Well, I am denying it. You think the world revolves around sex. It's pathetic." ~ Clive Barker
17. "You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country." ~ Clive Barker
18. "You only saw the darkness, Tammy. There was another side to her. I think there always is, don't you? There's always some light in the darkness, somewhere." ~ Clive Barker
19. "I keep a bedside journal. I am very affected by dream information. They might be scary to other people, but they're mine, so they don't feel scary. I'd wake up in a cold sweat if I didn't dream these things..." ~ Clive Barker
20. "Is there any good news?' Tesla said.Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?" ~ Clive Barker
21. "The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted." ~ Clive Barker
22. "Gli parve che l'unica soluzione potesse essere la follia, nessuna speranza se non la perdita della speranza." ~ Clive Barker
23. "There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation." ~ Clive Barker
24. "We all count the hours. We all look for completion, even if we fear it. We long to be consumed. I long to be consumed." ~ Clive Barker
25. "God's an astronautOz is over the rainbowand Median is where the monsters live." ~ Clive Barker
26. "Well, she's lucky. She still has her little dominion here in Coldheart Canyon." ~ Clive Barker
27. "Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way." ~ Clive Barker
28. "?"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 and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself." ~ Clive Barker
29. "As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was." ~ Clive Barker
30. "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 and disconnected from the world of deal making." ~ Clive Barker
31. "He[Tom] read from the Almenak."'The song that the Vigil Snake sings is in fact one immensely long word; the longest in the ancient language of the species. It is so long that an individual can sing it for a lifetime and never come to the end of it.'""That sounds like a Kleppism to me," Geneva said. "How would they ever learn it?""Good question," said Tom. "Maybe they're born with it, like a migration instinct?"'"Born with a song,"said Geneva.Tom smiled. "Yes. Don't you like that idea?""Liking it and having it be true aren't the same thing, Tom.""Huh. Sometimes you need to let things strike your heart and not your head, Geneva." ~ Clive Barker
32. "Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work." ~ Clive Barker
33. "Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs." ~ Clive Barker
34. "It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical." ~ Clive Barker
35. "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
36. "O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last." ~ Clive Barker
37. "Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red." ~ Clive Barker
38. "[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion." ~ Clive Barker
39. "Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of war,The voice of one who went before,But most of all the mirror's gaze,Which counts us out our numbered days." ~ Clive Barker
40. "Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself." ~ Clive Barker
41. "My feet are killing me.""I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally." ~ Clive Barker
42. "It was as though in these last minutes together--when they had so much to say--they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates." ~ Clive Barker
43. "She was a sea: and I had to swim in her." ~ Clive Barker
44. "Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite" ~ Clive Barker
45. "Witch, do this for me,Find me a moonmade of longing.Then cut it sliver thin,and having cut it,hang it highabove my beloved's house,so that she may look uptonightand see it,and seeing it, sigh for meas I sigh for her,moon or no moon." ~ Clive Barker
46. "There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion." ~ Clive Barker
47. "Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful." ~ Clive Barker
48. "Now, with the rain-clouds cleared and the moon climbing, I could see a large number of graves there, old and new intermingled. Usually such a sight would not have much disturbed me. Hauser had taught us to look coldly on death. It should not, he said, move a man more than the prospect of sunrise, for it is just as certain, and just as unremarkable. It was good advice when heard on a warm afternoon in a classroom in Wittenberg. But here - out in the middle of nowhere, with an old man murmuring his superstitions at my side - I was not so certain it made sense.("Haeckel's Tale")" ~ Clive Barker
49. "Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they'd been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair." ~ Clive Barker
50. "I dreamt a limitless book,A book unbound,Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundanceOn every line there was a new horizon drawn,New heavens supposed;New states, new souls." ~ Clive Barker
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