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• Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Expression, Law, Public Opinion

  Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Humorous, Imagination

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• That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Girl, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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• Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

  James Agate

  Looks, Force, Englishmen

  October 14, 1932 entry in "Ego". Book by James Agate, 1935.

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• The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

  Vance Havner

  People, Church, New Testament

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• I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers

  Carol Alt

  Blood, Meals, Sugar

  "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

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• I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Character, Ordinary, Littles

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Insanity, Trying

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• Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

  Hans Asperger

  Autism, Lines, Aspergers

  "Neurotribes review - the evolution of our understanding of autism" by Saskia Baron, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2015.

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• We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

  Eve Ensler

  Issues, Violence, Made

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• The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

  Kobo Abe

  World, Frightening, Closest

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• I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

  Anais Nin

  Reassurance, Despise, Understood

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• In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

  Stefan Zweig

  Understanding, Suffering, Lessons

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Reality, Emotional, Fascination

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• No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.

  Alan Greenspan

  Long, Risk, Matter

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• The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?

  Arthur Tress

  Dream, Loneliness, Gay

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• The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

  Wallace Stevens

  Opposites, Imagination, Chaos

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.153, Vintage

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• The difference between Christian thinking and the non-Christian philosopher has always been at this point. The non-Christian philosopher has always said that man is normal now, but biblical Christianity says he is abnormal now.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Biblical, Thinking

  Francis Schaeffer (2013). “He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e  tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.

  Marcel Proust

  Amour, L Amour

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• Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.

  Frank Zappa

  Two, Steps, Can Do

  Interview on Channel 4, June 1, 1983.

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• It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Children, Father, Son

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1905). “The Story of a Literary Career”

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• What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Things In Life, Relation

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

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• Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Would Be, Violence, Absence

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• When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions resulting from restrictions and usurpations, and that instead of accepting protection, what labor should demand is freedom. That those who advocate any extension of freedom choose to go no further than suits their own special purpose is no reason why freedom itself should be distrusted.

  Henry George

  Special, Purpose, Demand

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York
  City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves
  around than any other city in the world.

  David Letterman

  Funny, New York, Moving

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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