No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.
Claire LaZebnikThe majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them. Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity. If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them. People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it. You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.
C. JoyBell C.Tag: life inspirational humanity people inspirational-quotes change growth life-and-living normalcy inspirational-life growth-life mundane strength-of-spirit wisdom-quotes extraordinaire
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
Robert Anton WilsonTag: madness james-joyce normalcy
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: normalcy pretend a-wrinkle-in-time
Normal' ist zunächst, was zwei Leute dafür halten.
Andrea BrackmannTag: psychology subjectivity normalcy normal german normalität
We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.
John HughesTag: normalcy freaks being-yourself
As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.
Douglas AdamsTag: humor acceptance normalcy relief
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
David Foster WallaceTag: television normalcy tv normal louise-erdrich e-unibus-pluram
First, you hand over some basics--overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.
Julianna BaggottTag: normalcy
Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?
Bernard WolfeTag: normalcy norms abnormality deviation
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