Excluded Middle

Famous quotes containing the words excluded and/or middle:

    “It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre—the novel designed on purpose to be excluded from the Booker short-list.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “For rhetoric, he could not ope
    His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
    And when he happen’d to break off
    I’ th’ middle of his speech, or cough,
    H’ had hard words ready to show why,
    And tell what rules he did it by;”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)