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• Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

  Jean Liedloff

  Goal, Alive, Conditions

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.109, Da Capo Press

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• Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance.That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Party, Thinking, People

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.34, Dial Press

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• The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.

  Andrew X. Pham

  War, Heart, Men

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• We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Dream, Lying, Independent

  Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.1, Routledge

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• Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

  Trisha Goddard

  Machines, Humans, Cycles

  "Trisha Goddard: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 20`3.

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• But you must still know to respect other people's faith.'
  'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.'
  'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.'
  'In which case I believe in Jedi

  Michael Arditti

  Believe, People, Locks

  Michael Arditti (2009). “The Enemy of the Good”, Arcadia Books

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• Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

  Charles de Lint

  Character, Dysfunctional Family, Wells

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• Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

  E. M. Forster

  Wall, War, Nerves

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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• It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Kings, Women, Government

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• In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, Taken, Usual

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Thinking, Elements

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Queens, Sorry, Hate

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

  John B. Larson

  Teenager, Brain, Development

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even just a normal shot I find that much more interesting because of the 3D. It's like a shot of a couple of cars and us walking and it's like, "Oh wow, this is 3D. I've never seen this before!".

  Emile Hirsch

  Couple, Interesting, Car

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom and I are very honest with each other, almost to a fault. But that's just the way I am in life. If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.

  Kesha

  Mom, Song, Stupid

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

  Jenny Hval

  Reading, Trying, World

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• It's good for my fans to be able to connect with me as a person because I am a very normal 15-, 16-year-old girl. I still get in trouble. I still have boy problems and friend problems so it's just very good for my fans to see that.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Girl, Boys, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

  Gucci Mane

  Might, Clubs, Persons

  "Ferrari Boyz Face Off: Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Talk Cars". Interview with Carlos Matias, www.complex.com. August 12, 2011.

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• I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.

  Primo Levi

  Memories, Men, Clothes

  "The Mirror Maker" by Primo Levi, ("The Premise"), 1986.

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• I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.

  Craig Nicholls

  Hurt, Tired, Ideas

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• What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Blood, People

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• I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Fun, Fire, Years

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• I’ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

  Morton Gould

  People, Should, Felt

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• Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Running, Regret, Past

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

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• When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

  Thomas Szasz

  Jesus, Men, People

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