“ 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. Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately. Robert Aickman
“ 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… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ 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… C.G. Jung
“ 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. Sylvia Plath
“ 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… Victor J. Banis
“ 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… C. JoyBell C.
“ I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will… Andrena Sawyer
“ 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… Sylvia Plath
“ 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… Douglas Coupland
“ 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… Mohsin Hamid
“ 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 Wilson
“ You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. John Steinbeck
“ I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness. Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“ 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… Richard Matheson
