“When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.”
As quoted in The Truth in Words: Inspiring Quotes for the Reflective Mind (2002) by Paras, p. 92
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