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“There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)”
― D. J. MacHale, The Quillan Games

“I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?”
― D.J. MacHale

“I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet

“The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead!”
― James Howard Kunstler

“No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

“Death's gruesome face taunts:
soulless eyes, crimson grimace.
I really hate clowns.”
― Katherine Applegate

“There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)”
― Kelly Link, The Living Dead

“If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.”
― Steven E. Landsburg, The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

“Did I tell you about Anton?" Loots said.

Anton?" I shook my head.

It was a week ago, Loots said. There had been a knock on the door of his apartment and when he opened it his old friend Anton was standing there. Anton was a clown. He belonged to a circus that toured the provinces, playing to small towns and villages. They talked about the old days for a while, but Anton became increasingly restless and distracted. In the end Loots had to ask him if there was something wrong.

This is going to sound strange." The clown coughed nervously into his fist. "It's The Invisible Man. He's disappeared."

Loots stared at his friend.

He just vanished," Anton said, "into thin air."

The Invisible Man?" Loots said.

Yes."

He's disappeared?"

I told you it would sound strange," Anton said.”
― Rupert Thomson, The Insult

“Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Across the street, a clown picked up a ladder, turned, knocked the clown behind him into a bucket of water, then turned again to see what the commotion was, thus sending his rising victim into the bucket again with a surprising parping noise. The crowd watched silently. If it were funny, clowns wouldn鈥檛 be doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“Clowns are respectable only in a circus.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Hating clowns is a waste of time because you鈥檒l never loathe a clown as much as he loathes himself, but a magician? Magicians think they鈥檙e wise and witty, full of patter and panache, walking around like they didn鈥檛 deserve to be shot in the back of the head and dumped in a lake. For all the grandeur of its self-regard, magic consists of nothing more than making a total stranger feel stupid. Worse, the magician usually dresses like a jackass.”
― Grady Hendrix, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

“Clowns are made by those who made a circus out of life.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“So even in hell, there are clowns.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

“This dance was the dance of death, and they danced it for George Buffins, that they might be as him. They danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness. They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on. And, one by one, the outcast outlaws raised their heads to watch and all indeed broke out in laughter but it was a laughter without joy. It was the bitter laugh one gives when one sees there is no triumph over fate. When we saw those cheerless arabesques as of the damned, and heard that laughter of those trapped in the circles of hell, Liz and I held hands, for comfort.
They danced the night into the clearing, and the outlaws welcomed it with cheers. They danced the perturbed spirit of their master, who came with a great wind and blew cold as death into the marrow of the bones. They danced the whirling apart of everything, the end of love, the end of hope; they danced tomorrows into yesterdays; they danced the exhaustion of the implacable present; they danced the deadly dance of the past perfect which fixes everything fast so it can鈥檛 move again; they danced the dance of Old Adam who destroys the world because we believe he lives forever.
The outlaws entered into the spirit of the thing with a will. With 鈥榟uzzahs鈥� and 鈥榖ravos鈥�, all sprang up and flung themselves into the wild gavotte, firing off their guns. The snow hurled wet, white sheets in our faces, and the wind took up the ghastly music of the old clowns and amplified it fit to drive you crazy. Then the snow blinded us and Samson picked us up one by one and slung us back in that shed and leaned up hard against the door, forcing it closed against the tempest with his mighty shoulders.
Though bullets crashed into the walls and the wind came whistling through the knotholes and picked up burning embers from the fire, hurling them about until we thought we might burn to death in the middle of the snow and ice, the shed held firm. It rocked this way and that way and it seemed at any moment the roof might be snatched away, but this little group of us who, however incoherently, placed our faiths in reason, were not exposed to the worst of the storm. The Escapee, however, faced with this insurrection of militant pessimism, turned pale and wan and murmured to himself comforting phrases of Kropotkin, etc., as others might, in such straits, recite the rosary.
When the storm passed, as pass it did, at last, the freshly fallen snow made all as new and put the camp fire out. Here, there was a shred of scarlet satin and, there, Grik鈥檚 little violin with the strings broken but, of the tents, shacks, muskets and cuirasses of the outlaws, the clowns and the clowns themselves, not one sight, as if all together had been blown off the face of the earth.”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

“I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety.”
― Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

“Fishing tip #11: To make your fish look fresher, stick those plastic googly eyes on them鈥攅ven if your fish are still alive and swimming. Fish are natural clowns, they will find your sense of humor endearing, and they will appreciate you more when you eat them.”
― Jarod Kintz, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Self-proclaimed kings are often seen as jesters.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Some firebreathers have to use props, gasoline, all that extra stuff," explains the Ringmaster.
"But not this one. He's real. That's why I gave him the stage name Dragon.
"And the clowns? Why do they look so sad?"
"Ah, yes. Their girlfriend ran off with the strongman yesterday."
"Their girlfriend?"
"Yes, she was a contortionist. And clowns share everything.”
― Connor Garrett, Spellbound Under The Spanish Moss: A Southern Tale of Magic

“Then along came social media, the worst thing of all, the Cretin Unbound. Any moron could shout down Prometheus. The confederacy of dunces could descend like a pack and mock Apollo and Pythagoras. Now I鈥檓 putting an end to this circus. The clowns have performed long enough. The joke鈥檚 not funny anymore.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“Hipsters are clowns for the sake of being clowns.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Their clownish countenance notwithstanding, raccoons are the most destructive of all fowl thieves in many regions of North America.”
― Dave Holderread, Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks: Breeds, Care, Health

“Since the buffoons called politicians have appeared on the stage of humanity, interest in clowns has decreased drastically!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“袘邪斜懈 蟹邪胁卸写懈 谢褞斜谢褟褌褜 褋锌褉邪胁卸薪褨褏 泻谢芯褍薪褨胁. 啸芯褔邪 蟹邪屑褨卸 胁懈褏芯写褟褌褜 蟹邪 邪泻褉芯斜邪褌褨胁.”
― Serhiy Zhadan, 袘褨谐 袦邪泻. 袩械褉械蟹邪胁邪薪褌邪卸械薪薪褟

“Every time I get on a Boeing 737 Max, I am aware it was 鈥楧esigned by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys鈥�.”
― Steven Magee

“Quality of education and employment is like a politician's promise鈥攕ounds amazing during the campaign, but once elected, it vanishes into thin air, leaving us with a circus full of clowns juggling our dimes.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“At the end of the day, it鈥檚 a big circus, a great parade. We鈥檙e all in it together, bare-assed in clown suits.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“Trust me, mates, ya never want to fight a running battle with creepy clowns and their balloon animals! Balloon snakes are the worst. They crawl all up in your鈥� well, never you mind!”
― Daniel Thorman, The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure

“I鈥檇 be honored, sir. And I can鈥檛 wait to meet your other friend. Grandpa Walt says she鈥檚 a pistol.鈥�
鈥淵ou might say that,鈥� said G.C. 鈥淛ust make sure she鈥檚 not aimed at you when she goes off. Allie hasn鈥檛 been quite the same since the clown incident.”
― Daniel Thorman, The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure