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Erving Goffman has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
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Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
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The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to…
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The world, in truth, is a wedding.
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated,…
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Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
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Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and…
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters…
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery,…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.
— Drew Carey
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Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.
— Ann Northrop
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I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.
— Parker Posey
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I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for…
— Dirk Benedict
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Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
— Jeffrey Veen
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. .…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let…
— Daniel Berrigan
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