
“What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.”
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
“What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.”
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 8, p. 127
"We're Extremely Fortunate"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
Source: The Anti-Post-Modern Post-Modernist http://errolmorris.com/content/lecture/theantipost.html
“People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.”
As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtw5nzgYpA
Context: You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.
A Tobey Profile, quoted by Belle Krasne, Art Digest, 26 Oct. 15, 1951
1950's