Quotes About Multiplicity

The world is like a collection of interrelated points of view.

information is the measure of the number of possible alternatives for something.

Benjamin J. Ashby the third. Oh there's three of them.

standing there beside this king, Han Solo and all the other characters he would eventually play seeded in him now. And then there was me, pregnant with all those people I would play: a vengeful hairdresser, a hostile mother-in-law, a flute-playing adulteress, a psychologist, a drug-addicted writer, a boyfriend-poaching actress, a boy-hungry casting director, myself, an unfaithful wife, an angry boss, myself, myself, myself, myself, and a couple of nuns.

If you cut a worm in two, you make two worms.

What does it matter who a person is or who they have been? Let them think what they like. We're all so many people, aren't we, nowadays? So confusing it is, I don't know how anyone keeps track. There are the people we are inside, then the people we used to be, then there are the people other people think we are.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

problema es que son demasiados —dice Bev Shaw—. Es imposible que lo entiendan, y tampoco tenemos manera de decírselo. Son demasiados, según nuestro criterio, que no es el suyo. Si pudieran, se multiplicarían sin cesar hasta llenar la tierra.

Beat doesn't mean tired or bushed, so much as it means beato, the Italian for beatific: to be in a state of beatitude, like St. Francis, trying to love all life, trying to be utterly sincere with everyone, practicing endurance, kindness, cultivating joy of heart. How can this be done in our mad modern world of multiplicities and millions? By practicing a little solitude, going off by yourself once in a while to store up that most precious of goals: the vibrations of sincerity.

When two people are together, they are not two but six: what each one is, what each one thinks he or she is, and what each one thinks the other is. And what is true for people is also true for countries and organisations.

We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

T ruth can be stated in a thousand different ways Yet each one can be true

Your world and the cat's world are not the same.

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.