State Sequence

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or sequence:

“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

“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)