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“People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.”

People Want Used Lying Levels Views Path Return Normal Trade Sells Notion Dear Disaster Assumption Trends Emerging Cheapness

Author:William Eckhardt

“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.”

World Dream Action Law Lying Energy Existence Normal Ordinary Conscious Independent Everyday Surface Impulse Our Thoughts Our Actions Casual Beneath The Surface

Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

“Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.”

Mean Political Lying Common Habit Truth Is Normal Intellectual Sickness Telling The Truth Disgusting Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Ali Sina

“A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.”

Together Lying Language Emotion Records Normal Mood

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.”

Humans Lying Emotion Greater Violence Planets Citizens Ego Normal Roots Criminals Insane Insanity Collectives Respectable Identification Deranged Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”

Different Form Lying Consciousness Special Type Normal Conscious Wake Up Screens Rational Waking

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.”

Ifs Lying Normal Liars Sanity

Author:Ernest Becker

“Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.”

Want Lying Normal Pretending Normal Life

Author:Gaspar Noe

“There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.”

Kind Reality Action Lying Force Understanding Rooms Behavior Normal Ill Boundaries Restructure

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.”

World Lying Steps Normal Bars Threshold Doorways

Book:Pussy, king of the pirates

Source: Pussy, king of the pirates

“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”

Men Has Beens Feelings Past Lying Sound Talking Listening Bed Normal Summer Clothes Ordinary Get Up Peaceful Evening Making Love Compulsion Summer Evening

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”

Feels Lying Family Normal Advertising Agency Inferiors Family Love About Family Advertising Agencies Normalcy Inspirational Family Love Importance Of Family Normal Family

Author:Claire LaZebnik

“Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.”

Lying Natural Truth Is Normal Madness

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine