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The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
— Erving Goffman
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.
— Emily Dickinson
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify
— Erving Goffman
So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.
— Erving Goffman
We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.
— Erving Goffman
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
— Erving Goffman
Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.
— Franka Potente
The world, in truth, is a wedding.
— Erving Goffman
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
— Wendell Berry
Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.
— Erving Goffman
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
— Erving Goffman
My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.
— Chris Colfer
