Normal Quotes

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There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging… — Guy Gavriel Kay
If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just… — J D Salinger
â€¦ and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear… — Douglas Adams
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different. — Virginia C. Andrews
Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless. — Kathy Acker
...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being… — Michel Foucault
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common. — Dorothy Parker
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant… — Boyd K. Packer
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. — Anton Chekhov
Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state? — Tite Kubo
I had all the characteristics of a human beingâ€”flesh, blood, skin, hairâ€”but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability… — Bret Easton Ellis
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when youâ€™re born is… — Douglas Adams
The rabbits though and thought. "If we're normal and Leo is normal, then normal is whatever you are! — Stephen Cosgrove
Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. — Paulo Coelho
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than… — Herbert Marcuse
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and… — Malcolm Lowry

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