Normality Quotes - Page 4

• But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

  Tom Robbins

  Civilization, Long, Neurosis

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.257, Bantam

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• Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

  John Updike

  Dwarves, Littles, Fame

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• The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

  Michel Foucault

  Teacher, Doctors, Judging

  "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison". Book by Michel Foucault, 1977.

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• The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Mean, Attention

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• I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

  Simon Cowell

  Country, Zero, Years

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• Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Daylight, Normal

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• The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy.

  Lyn Gardner

  Ideas, Age, Want

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• The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

  Samantha Barks

  Car, Important, Red

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• We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

  Vicente del Bosque

  World, Noise, Doe

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• The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

  Nigel Kneale

  Fun, Writing, Together

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• There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mean, Hair, Two

  "'It's All Gone Widescreen'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 03, 2006.

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• We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.

  Douglas Adams

  Fall, Two, Levels

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

  R. D. Laing

  Madness, Sanity, Ambiguous

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• There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

  Katherine Dunn

  Brain, Behaviour, Mediocrity

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012

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• "Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!

  Susie Bright

  Hate, Kids, Gender Bias

  "Nothing But the Girl" by Susie Bright, (Introduction), 1996.

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• Nothing would more quickly and definitively reduce U.S. income inequality than allowing every worker in all businesses to participate in deciding the range of incomes from one worker to another. They would never do what is now a matter of normality: give one person millions, in some cases billions, while others have barely enough to make a living.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Giving, Income, Matter

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• Anxiety is the normality of our age.

  Alex Colville

  Anxiety, Age

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• Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

  Angie Everhart

  Thinking, Normal, Way

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• I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

  Nancy Mairs

  Self, Ordinary World, People

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