"We cannot be normal and alive at the same time."
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"Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow."
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"People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another."
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"A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble."
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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."
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"I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal."
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"I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple."
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"Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store."
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"I'm about as normal as Norman Bates."
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"It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me."
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"We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal."
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"It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing."
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"Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business."
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"It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic."
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"Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible."
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"It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature."
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"A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine."
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"My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal"
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"I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does."
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"Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same."
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