“You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”

— Ray Bradbury

Salon.com (29 August 2001)
Context: If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

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