Quotes from The Great and Secret Show

Clive Barker ·  658 pages

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“Is there any good news?' Tesla said.
Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?”
― Clive Barker, quote from The Great and Secret Show


“Beautiful," Grillo said.
"Would Swift approve?"
"Fuck Swift."
"Somebody should have.”
― Clive Barker, quote from The Great and Secret Show


“Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible.”
― Clive Barker, quote from The Great and Secret Show


“Before she could look to find a wound he had control of the vision once again, but like a juggler attempting to hold too many balls in the air catching one meant loosing another.”
― Clive Barker, quote from The Great and Secret Show


“If (when) she got back to her typewriter she'd begin these tongue-in-cheek screenplays over from the top, telling them with faith in the tale, not because every fantasy was absolutely true but because no reality ever was.”
― Clive Barker, quote from The Great and Secret Show



“Stories had a way of doing that, in Grillo’s experience. It was his belief that nothing, but nothing, could stay secret, however powerful the forces with interests vested in silence. Conspirators might conspire and thugs attempt to gag but the truth, or an approximation of same, would show itself sooner or later, very often in the unlikeliest form. It was seldom hard facts that revealed the life behind the life. It was rumour, graffiti, strip cartoons and love songs.”
― Clive Barker, quote from The Great and Secret Show


“Nothing, I had come to believe by the end, was more illusory than the idea of ending.”
― Clive Barker, quote from The Great and Secret Show


About the author

Clive Barker
Born place: in Liverpool, The United Kingdom
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