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“Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.”

World Able Sin Seeing Worst Subjects Circumstances Offers Normal Standards Expectations Mercy Insight Accepted Boundaries Hardship Temporary Exceed Seeing The World Velocity Decorum Reprieve

Author:Steve Almond

“I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life..”

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Author:Jean Dubuffet

“If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.”

People Ifs Feels Ideas Real Whole Home Stuff Seeing Normal Sitting Trade Boxes Boring Toys New Things New Ideas Boring Life

Author:Alex Day

“I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.”

People Black Seeing Normal Black People Judged Normal Things Being Judged

Author:Chris Rock

“My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.”

World Art Mother Artist Father Growing Up Growing Seeing Normal Spending Around The World Our Time Art World Experiencing Things

Author:Bran Ferren

“So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?”

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Author:Jacque Fresco

“Maybe there's a universe out there - happening now - where we end up together and when I close my eyes at night, I'm not dreaming the way a normal person would. Instead I'm seeing flashes of our lives in the multiverse. They're not simple dreams because I miss you, right? They're scientific, anachronistic visions.”

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Book:Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn

Source: Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn

“The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from planned lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, mountaintop removal is killing families throughout Appalachia, and oil/mining companies continue to denigrate Native American and indigenous rights throughout the world (see North Dakota Pipeline presently). This is horrific - and yet we somehow consider it normal.”

“A Different World was run by black women, Debbie Allen and Yvette Lee Bowser. Lead writer Susie Fales-Hill was a hero of mine, because she was 28 when she was running one of the top shows on television. Going to work every day and seeing black women in charge made that normal to me.”

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Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.”

People Thinking Way Looks Mean Used Reading Levels Half Seeing Normal Happenings Fundamentals Used To Be Fairy Twins Just Being Backwards

Book:Among Others

Source: Among Others