“A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.”

Source: Cold Days

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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The Raven Cycle Series, The Dream Thieves (2013)

Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 17.
Context: For our chronically and extremely hungry man, Utopia can be defined simply as a place where there is plenty of food. He tends to think that, if only he is guaranteed food for the rest of his life, he will be perfectly happy and will never want anything more. Life itself tends to be defined in terms of eating. Freedom, love, community feeling, respect, philosophy, may all be waved aside as fripperies that are useless since they fail to fill the stomach. Such a man may fairly be said to live by bread alone. It cannot possibly be denied that such things are true, but their generality can be denied. Emergency conditions are, almost by definition, rare in the normally functioning peaceful society.

Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 22, p. 343

Source: The Black Room (1975), p. 20
Context: All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not. It means that since they can't see much beyond their own little situation, they tend to vegetate. They need some immediate stimulus to keep them alert.

How Do I Stay Normal in Hollywood (1942)

On the depiction of verbal abuse in films, as quoted in " Pahlaj Nihalani: Normal people don’t abuse the way we see in films http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/normal-people-dont-abuse-the-way-we-see-in-films-pahlaj-nihalani/" The Indian Express (29 January 2015)