Famous quotes containing the words receive and/or sequence:
“If you don’t understand it, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is because you are too decadent to receive it.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“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)