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“Jack's got an asshole like a clown's pocket.”
Gavin Free (1988) English filmmaker
"Let's Play Minecraft Episode 13 - Find the Tower Part 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yC3Jl77Ywo. youtube.com. August 24, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
“That was funny, yet sad. Kind of like getting tit-fucked by a clown.”
Dave Attell (1965) comedian
"Captain Miserable"
“Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 115)
“Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Bird on the Wire"
Songs from a Room (1969)
“People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."”
Vaslav Nijinsky (1889–1950) Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
As quoted in Vaslav Nijinsky : A Leap into Madness by Peter F. Ostwald, Ch. 8: Playing the Role of a Madman, p. 176
Unsourced variant: I know everyone will say "Nijinsky has gone mad," but I don’t care because I have already played the mad man at home. That is what everyone will think, but they won’t put me in an insane asylum because I dance very well and give money to anyone who asks. People like eccentrics, so they will leave me alone and say I’m a mad clown. I like the mentally ill because I know how to talk to them. When my brother was in an insane asylum, I loved him and he could feel me. His friends liked me. I was eighteen then. I understood the life of a mentally ill person.
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
Lonely Dissent http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/ (December 2007)