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  • Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

    Melissa Marr (2009). “Wicked Lovely”, p.20, Harper Collins
  • Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

    Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

    Mean   Usual   Normalcy  
    Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult
  • After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

    War   Vines   Hints  
    Chinua Achebe (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.29, Anchor
  • (...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

    Life   Unique   People  
  • I just try to keep that connection to normalcy. I never want to lose that, being normal. People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy. I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

    People   Guy   Trying  
    Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.
  • So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

    Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.21, Penguin
  • I've learned that I don't want to be as open or public about relationships anymore. In my first relationship, I thought I could hold on to the normalcy of just being like "Yeah, we're dating," just like if it were high school and I was telling my friends. But in high school, there aren't articles written everywhere when you break up and you don't have everyone in the school coming up to you and asking what happened or sharing their opinion with you. It didn't feel like ours anymore, it felt like everybody else's.

    School   Dating   Asking  
    Source: www.teenvogue.com
  • Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

  • Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

  • The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  • Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

    Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.

  • I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

    Normalcy   Way   Feels  
    "Tina Fey: Miss Tina Regrets". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. February 15, 2010.
  • No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

    Family   Lying   Agency  
  • America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

    Speech, Boston, Mass., 14 May 1920.
  • You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

    Funny   Inspiring   Money  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

    Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.264, Hachette UK
  • In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

    War   Roles   Normalcy  
    "Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined,' 'Fabulation' open". Interview with Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2011.
  • I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

    Moving   Ravens   Long  
  • Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

    Crazy   Average   Mad  
    "Analysis Terminable and Interminable". Book by Sigmund Freud, sect. 5, 1937.
  • Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

    Men   Majority   Normalcy  
    Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
  • My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is what threatens stability and normalcy and yet it seems very much a part of being human - at least we are all a bit obsessive and compulsive. Aren't all humans driven by mad desires for one thing or another?

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

    Ideas   Long   Normalcy  
    "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.
  • Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

    Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.102, Routledge
  • Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

    Source: www.nerdprobs.com
  • Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent, they tell us who we are and who we should be.

    "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.
  • Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

  • If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

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