Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.
Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
(n.) The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy.
The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called no...
I'm sorry I was short with him--but I don't like a man to approach me telling me it for my sake.Maybe it was, said WylieIt's poor technique.I'd all for it, said Wylie. I'm vain as a woman. If anybody...
Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
Insanity is nothing more than ordinary.
It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of thing...
Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.
You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
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.
It’s horrible, she said.He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word horror had become obsolete. A surfeiting of terror made terror a cli...
If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the...
I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in...
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
The 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...
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stabl...
Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness.
Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under...
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