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“Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.”
“Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”
“When we realize that we are not the mind, we do not exist as a labled person. We also experience all circus around us does not exist either.”
“Newspapers take peoples tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.”
“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.”
“There are a lot of reasons why everyone in the known universe has a boyfriend except for me. I can list the top five on command, just in case anyones ever interested. No one ever has been, but that...”
“Despair is the constant companion of the clown.”
“Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents', Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and they were what they were because the world needed them to be that way.”
“In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.”
“I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.”
“In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.”
“What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?""No, Julius. It's the end of the circus.""I see. And these are the clowns?"Foaly's head poked through the doorway."Pardon me for interrupt...”
“Alecto what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearths super 8 films, those powers of yours how would they react?I dont know, said Alecto, but ordin...”
“The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.”
“Newspapers take peoples’ tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.”
“Alecto… what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth’s super 8 films, those powers of yours… how would they react?”“I don’t know,” said Alecto, “b...”