Multiplication Quotes (page 5)
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
Adrienne Rich
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Joan Didion
![Christopher Hitchens quote: "He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation..."](/pic/232230/600x316/quotation-christopher-hitchens-he-was-so-much-the-picture-of-different.jpg)
![George Carlin quote: "If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill..."](/pic/230986/600x316/quotation-george-carlin-if-someone-with-multiple-personalities-threatens.jpg)