State Sequence

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or sequence:

“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“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)