“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.” PeopleWayWritingReadingInterestGoneHappenedChildhoodNormalUniversalMemoirOutrageousThresholdWeirdness Author:Sara Nelson
“When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.” PeopleMenSeemsJesusCommonSpeechNormalClaimsCommon SenseLockedFreedom Of SpeechOutrageousPsychoticLocked UpMartiansMadhouses Author:Thomas Szasz
“It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.” IfsThinkingWantLittlesWholeSidesNormalMachinesDefeatTinyBridgesPoundsPlatesScrewsHammersOutrageousSyndromesChisels Author:Robert M. Pirsig