"Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?"

E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. Riposte of “that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical,” in “The Plot,” ch. 5, Aspects of the Novel (1927).



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