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Quotes About Multiplicity

If a scene called for numerous Oompas to join in a narrative song and dance, I would perform the steps for all of them with subtle distinctions of expression and movement. When the images were joined with the help of a computer, I became an entire troupe.
~ Deep Roy
I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that..
~ Tyler Perry
Perhaps DID raises problematic philosophical and psychological concerns about the nature of the mind itself... Ideas of a unitary ego would incline professionals to see multiplicity as a behavioural disturbance. However, if the mind is seen as a seamless collaboration between multiple selves - a kind of trade union agreement for co-existence - it is less threatening to face this subject.
~ Unknown
Beauty is in all shapes and sizes
~ Holland Roden
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
~ Frank Herbert
One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
~ Jeff Bezos
The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.
~ Daniel Egger
Chronology irritates me. There is no chronology inside my head. I am composed of a myriad of Claudias who spin and mix and part like sparks of sunlight on water.
~ Penelope Lively
Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts....
~ Philip K. Dick
That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.
~ Philip K. Dick
No two things were the same ever. No two stones, mice, drops of water, snowflakes. What did they call it? Nominalism. Perhaps it applied to people, to the same person at different times. There was no same person.
~ Philip K. Dick
Look, I've got more personalities than I can use already. All you are is one too many.
~ Philip Roth
You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
~ David Levithan
Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.
~ David Levithan
Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.
~ David Levithan
You know one me. Just like I know one you. But you can't know every me, Evan. And I can't know every you.
~ David Levithan
Sitting in that room, talking to Mr. Wright, I knew I had to get all of my identities in order. I realized how many identities I had, at a time when I really should have been focusing on having one.
~ David Levithan
Every day I am someone else. I am myself- I know I am myself- but I am also someone else
~ David Levithan
Life is complex, conceptually dominated by binaries but never wholly contained by them.
~ Zadie Smith
We are split people.
~ Zadie Smith
Dignity is not located in seeking equality with the white man and his civilization: it is not about assuming the attitudes of the master who has allowed his slaves to eat at his table. It is about being oneself with all the multiplicities, systems and contradictions of one's way of being, doing and knowing. It is about being true to one's Self.
~ Ziauddin Sardar
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
~ Zora Neale Hurston