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“When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.”

Young Parent Goes On My Family Towns West Texas Circus Cemetery Disneyland West Texas

Author:Jenny Lawson

“By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.”

May Littles Subjects Moon Towns Convinced Circus Reflecting

Author:William Herschel

“When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And, I was interested in set design and doing theater. And then, I was painting for a while. It was all circling around creating an intense experience for an audience of one, or an audience of many.”

Wanted Audience Design Painting Creating Theater Towns Intense Bizarre Circus Audience Of One

Author:Neil Burger

“Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.”

Kind Littles Real Stories Sex Wonder Laughing Car Towns Tales Command All Kinds Tall Bottles Domination Clown Circus Deep Down Leather Involving Kinky Tall Tales

Author:John S. Hall

“The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.”

Humor Funny Realizing Fate Horror Towns Miserable Circus Relentless New Yorkers

Author:Kyle Baker

“Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?”

Communication Towns Circus

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and the circus to come to town. That's what it's like, every day, when you're making a film. It's the magic.”

Film Used Father Waiting Morning Magic Towns Location Truck Circus

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen.”

Thinking I Can Helping Towns Clown Circus Somewhere Out There

Author:Dana Gould

“The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for the circus to come.”

Should Running Waiting Decided Towns Running Away Circus

Author:Dana Gould

“Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.”

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”

Towns Recovery Monkeys Circus

Author:Anne Lamott

“They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.”

Needs Looks Hands Painting Towns Blind Filled Selling Brown Tonight Pants Tied Restless Rope Circus Riot Sailor Passports Desolation Walkers Trance Squad Parlor Postcards Commissioners

Author:Bob Dylan

“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.”

Mean Humor Funny Left Causes Towns Addiction Comedian Monkeys Circus

Author:George Carlin