James O Barr Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts...

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

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

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#9. This speedy retreat left Georges-Picot under the impression that 'What the British want, is only to deceive the Arabs.

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

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#11. 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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#12. Hey gunslinger... nice shot.

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#13. A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements must be based on the social linguistic consciousness related to usage.

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

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

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

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#18. Nothing is trivial.

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

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

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#21. I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker.

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

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

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#24. victims, aren't we all?

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

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

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

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#28. 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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#29. Shouldn't have looked, boy...

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

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

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