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Clive Barker, born on October 5, 1952, is a renowned fantasy novelist from London, England. His works are known for their unique imagination and profound thematic exploration, with notable titles including 'Cabal' and 'Hellraiser'. Barker's writing style blends elements of horror, fantasy, and literature, making a significant impact on the literary world.

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“Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.”

Knows Heart Moments Christian Know How Masters Reader Compression

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“I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.”

Knows Want Has Beens Book Able Together Sex Horror

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“There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.”

Knows World Faces Conscious Dread Heartbeat

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“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”

Knows Shows Beautiful Faces Cutting Alive Blood Tears Terrible Standing Sight Guilt Your Face Ache Standing There

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“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 becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.”

Ifs Knows Persons Said Faces Wonder Scene Absolutes Rounds Originality Merry Merry Go Round Wonder Love

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“Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Play Light Darkness Ambition Grandiose Abarat

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“Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass.”

Knows May Dream Bread Flats Yeast

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“Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.”

Knows Moments Would Be Eye Care Able Fun Stars Hours Laughing Alive Tomorrow Take Care Tonight Wiser

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“She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.”

Knows Girl Just A Girl

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“I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .”

Knows Way Feels Trying Dream Hands Unity Painter Distinction Comradeship

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“Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.”

Knows Art Country Moments Use Dream Past Memories Fantasy Immortal Prophecy

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Born: October 5, 1952
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