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“A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someone said the other say. 'Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal parted a long, l...”
“Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for he...”
“If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?”
“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance ...”
“The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with...”
“If you ever felt alone, come to my cottage and drink the whole bottle; it is not so bad to be abnormal for a while.”
“And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.”
“I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you dont like. And you feel yourself as the homo normalis. You have locked up crazy people, and the normal pe...”
“Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel m...”
“Theres no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You cantand shouldntforce yourself to want something normal and stop wanting what you truly want. Its a sure ...”
“This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.”
“I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.”
“People have gotten used to living a botched-up life — to be anxious, insecure, hateful, jealous, and in various states of unpleasantness through the day — slowly humanity has begun to see it as nor...”
“One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get ...”
“It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”
“If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.”
“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”
“Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that ...”
