James O'Barr Quotes

#1. Sarah: Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever ...

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#2. Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

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#3. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

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#4. Shouldn't have looked, boy...

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#5. When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell ... say hello for me ...

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#6. There are no boundries between good and evil where love is concerned.

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#7. So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

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#8. Life is just a dream on the way to death.

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#9. victims, aren't we all?

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#10. Life is lousy with hurt but it also shimmers with beauty.

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#11. We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.

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#12. I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker.

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#13. Tell them I'm coming, mr. Jones.

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#14. It's not death if you refuse it ... It is if you accept it.

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#15. Nothing is trivial.

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#16. There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm ...

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#17. Sometimes I dream of sleepiness,
sometimes I feel like I'm alive.

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#18. If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

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#19. It can't rain all the time.

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#20. Hey gunslinger... nice shot.

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#21. Pain? I know pain at the molecular level... It pulls at my atoms... Sings to me in an alphabet of fear... I am the boiling man... come to break the bones of your sins, meat puppet...

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#22. Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you.
The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.

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#23. Childhood is over when you know you're gonna die.

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#24. ...the girl.. her name was Shelly...

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#25. Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts...

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#26. People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

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#27. He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white.

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#28. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand?

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#29. Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now.

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