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Ordinary

I wouldnt say Im normal. But Im relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f— out of me. – Gillian Anderson

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. – G. K. Chesterton

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

Every day of my life, I feel fat. Its not correct thinking in the natural, normal human beings way of life. – Angie Everhart

Normal is not something to aspire to, its something to get away from. – Jodie Foster

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. – Sigmund Freud

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. – R. D. Laing

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. – Jos

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. – Mark Twain

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face. – William Wordsworth