Infinite Sequence

Famous quotes containing the words infinite and/or sequence:

    “It has no future but itself—
    Its infinite contain
    Its past—enlightened to perceive
    New periods of pain.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “It isn’t that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history’s meaning.”
    —Philip Roth (b. 1933)