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The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are stri...

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I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our b...

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The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually ...

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I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But ...

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I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child w...

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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his...

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The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years–if it ever did end–began, so far as I...

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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive yo...

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I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions ...

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Tom RobbinsAnother Roadside Attraction

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

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Angela CarterNights at the Circus

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watchi...

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