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"It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?"
"Outside of show business, I live a normal life."
"It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural."
"Apparently I couldn’t even pretend to be normal."
"You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal."
"I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi camp or something."
"I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal."
"Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal."
"That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true."
"I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was."
"Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse."
"Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form."
"There is no such thing in life as normal."
"I feel 80% of my life is completely normal."
"We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator."
"Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?"
"I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal."
"Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished."
"Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox."
"Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal."
