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“Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.” George Eliot, Middlemarch

“she was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort it is.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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