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• Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.

  James Hunt

  Men, Circles, Driving

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• According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.

  Alain de Botton

  Love, Men, Portraits

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• I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. No, sorry, there is one: my daughter. The point is that Mia is 11 years old. It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Daughter, Sorry

  "Kate Winslet: 'I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks'". Interview with Simona Siri, www.vanityfair.it. May 30, 2012.

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• The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Success, Stress, Healthy

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• Are you suggesting I’m not normal? (Nykyrian) Oh yeah, baby, you ooze normality. From the top of that assassin’s braid to the tip of those boots that I’m pretty sure conceal retractable blades. You’re just an average joe. No doubt about it. Cause, you know, everyone sits for hours doing nothing but typing. (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Average Joe, Doubt

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.162, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Mistake, Believe

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• The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, People, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

  Hiroya Oku

  People, Limits, Force

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• It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

  Emma Forrest

  Real, Believe, Force Fields

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

  Tom Robbins

  Civilization, Neurosis

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

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• Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Creativity, Mental Health, Paradigm

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• A cup of tea would restore my normality.

  Douglas Adams

  Tea, Cups Of Tea, Cups

  "Fictional character: Arthur Dent". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

  George Takei

  Gun, Wire, Would Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

  Hannah Arendt

  Together, Atrocities, Viewpoints

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.241, Penguin

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• [T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Love Is, Opposites, Ideas

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• One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Quality, Vicissitudes, Said

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.131, University of Michigan Press

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• There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

  Salma Hayek

  Expression, Domestic Violence, Way

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• That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

  Stefano Benni

  Art, Escaping, Everyday

  Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (2006). “Margherita Dolce Vita”, Europa Editions Incorporated

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• What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.

  Anne Rice

  Mean, Kids, College

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• It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

  Jon Ronson

  Ideas, People, Boundaries

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

  Jack London

  Running, Philosophy, Two

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• It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films?

  Douglas Booth

  Real, Play, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Phones, People, Diaries

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Drama, Different, Cinema

  "Cannes 2012: Holy Motors - review" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.

  Terry Gilliam

  Beautiful, Moving, Reality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 05, 2003.

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