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“Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“The unacceptable over time becomes the norm.”

— Steven Redhead

“The harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal.”

— Haruki Murakami

“If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of deviations, don't try to destroy the norms themselves — that's a fool's errand.”

— T.J. Kirk

“IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.”

— Stafford Beer

“Consequently even if the paradigm is flawed, it would be extremely difficult to resist.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

“We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers.”

— Ryan Holiday

“An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than…

— Romain Gary

“I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.”

— Raymond Hull

“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

“We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.”

— Bill Maher