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“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
“You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it ...”
“The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...”
“Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!”
“He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.”
“For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the t...”
“I PAINT MY FACE.By Omrane Khuder.Mirror, distorted; I sit, paint my Face,Toxic white Make-up buries my Scars,My Eyes tell lies; Dumbfounded Confidence hides the Disgrace.Place the tragic Vehicle ca...”
“Whatever. I know that when a monster is chasing you. You take your high-heeled shoes off. Ive learned that And you never, ever dangle your legs over the edge of the bed at night And clowns, well,...”
“My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.”
“Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Impe...”
“The first handkerchief was tied to a second, yellow handkerchief. He fed both through the window and kept pulling. Attached to it was a red one. Then a green one. Go away, you goddamn clown! Jenny ...”
“If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!”
“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight yearsif it ever did endbegan, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with r...”
“I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.”
“I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.”
“Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.”
“I hate when I break my own rules. Whats the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?”
“Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.”
“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”
“A clown makes you laugh it doesn't mean he knows how to perform a surgery.”