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“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.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now”

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Author:Kurt Wagner

“You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.”

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Author:John Forbes Nash

“Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.”

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Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”

Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

“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.”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson