Famous quotes containing the words finite and/or form:
“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
—Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)
“The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)