Chronological Quotes

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.