The best Quotes by Clive Barker

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The best Quotes by Clive Barker

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist, playwright, author, film director, and visual artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

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My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

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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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Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

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Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light, hidden at the heart of things.

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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

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Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

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I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

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Linda: "Why did you decide to come to Los Angeles?"
Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

Craig Kilborn

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

Los Angeles Taiwan

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

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Beginnings can be painful. But that doesn't mean they're bad.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

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Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.

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New Year's Beginning

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Mario Andretti

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Waiting Beginning

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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Reason & Sanity Imagination

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

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Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

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Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

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Stories Writing

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

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Stories Writing

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

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"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

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It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

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Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

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Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

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The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

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I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

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The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

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Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

Sebastian Fitzek in Splinter

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

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"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"

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