„People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.“

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— Patch Adams, 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. As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtw5nzgYpA

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„People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.“

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„Be a clown, be a clown,
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Act the fool, play the calf,
And you'll always have the last laugh.“

„It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.“

„Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.“

„The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.“

„I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.“

„People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic“

„Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.“

„Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.“

„If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly… well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike…“

„Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.“

„There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns… and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)“

„Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.“

„Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.“

„Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.“

„I do it for myself and the people I love. It’s love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices.“

„Love for the sinner is ominously close to love of the sin. But the love of Christ for the sinner in itself is the condemnation of sin.“

„Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam egestas wisi a erat. Morbi imperdiet, mauris ac auctor dictum.“