"There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself."

-- Rokia Traore

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes #Knows Quotes

“You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.”
“Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so it doesn't matter to me.”
“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
“People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.”
“I don't know what I'm doing. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm shopping around.”
“In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high. ...the early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B.C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone...”

Source : "A History of Science". Book by George Sarton. Volume 2: "Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.", Preface, 1959.
“The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.”
“Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.”

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