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“The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.”

Mean Has Beens Body Mother Attention Return Tests Ecstasy Stable Normality Anorexics Notice Me

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Anxiety is the normality of our age.”

Age Anxiety Normality

Author:Alex Colville

“The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.”

Ifs Writing Different Stories Together Turns Fun Tricks Different Things Paradox Normality

Author:Nigel Kneale

“So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.”

“Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.”

World Reality Beautiful Moving Fantasy Extremes Wondrous Normality Jolly

Author:Terry Gilliam

“Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.”

Imagination Fine Ideals Normality

Author:Carl Jung

“Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death”

People Weak Normality Weak People

Author:Greg Plitt

“Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.”

Men Children Values Loses Normal Absurd Educate Schooled Normality Unschooling Educated Man Problems In School

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”

Men Years Lasts Normal Fellows Fifty Normality

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy.”

Want Ideas Shows Age Can Do Ability Company Audience Clear Achieve Performers Normality

Author:Lyn Gardner

“Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.”

Littles Fame Edges Tall Dwarfs Normality Dwarves Famous Writers

Author:John Updike

“But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”

Long Civilization Edges Neurotic Neurosis Normality

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.”

Four Stupid Type Normal Mad Balanced Mixtures Normality Imbeciles

Author:Umberto Eco

“The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.”

Social Teacher Judging Doctors Workers Educator Social Worker Normality

Author:Michel Foucault

“The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.”

Kind Important Car Normal Red Important Things Carpet Surreal Red Carpet Normality

Author:Samantha Barks

“We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.”

World Doe Sells Noise Extremism Extremist Normality

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body.”

Should Wells Body Seems Pain Individual Understanding Natural Particular Products Healthy Perfection Green Notion Illness Lifestyle Well Being Consumerism Precise Norm Normality

Author:Peter Dickens