“What if there are not only two nostrils, two eyes, two lobes, and so forth, but two psyches as well, and they are separately equipped? They go through life like Siamese twins inside one person … They can be just a little different, like identical twins, or they can be vastly different, like good and evil.”

— Norman Mailer

Kittredge Gardiner, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)

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American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m… 1923–2007

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

On Barbara Cartland
'Wedding of the century'
Essays and reviews, Glued to the Box (1983)

“According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.”

Steven Pinker book The Blank Slate

Source: The Blank Slate (2002), p. 44, emphasis added

“In the beginning there were two primal spirits,
Twins spontaneously active,
These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.”

Zoroaster Persian prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism

Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 30, 3.
The Gathas

“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two,
Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, stanza 7

“In the world we live in, what weand what weare like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Sometimes it’s like I’m two different actors with two different careers, the Star Trek career and the other career.”

Colm Meaney (1953) Irish actor

Colm Meaney: 'explaining Ireland to the British' is 'quite a task' https://www.irishpost.com/news/colm-meaney-interview-173911 (November 15, 2019)

“One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive”

Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?”

Tamora Pierce book Cold Fire

Source: Cold Fire

“It would, however, be wrong to think of an electron as a bullet-like structure with tentacles sticking out from its surface. We can calculate the mass of the bullet, and also the mass of the tentacles. The two masses are found to be identical, each agreeing with the known mass of the electron. Thus we cannot take the electron to be bullet plus tentacles… The two pictures do not depict two different parts of the electron, but two different aspects of the electron. They are not additive but alternative; as one comes into play, the other must disappear.”

James Jeans (1877–1946) British mathematician and astronomer

Physics and Philosophy (1942)

“Madri thought of the twin Aswins, who coming unto her with speed begat upon her two sons that were twins named Nakula and Sahadeva, unrivalled on earth for personal beauty.”

Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata

The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXIV

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