Sam LipsyteI'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.
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This quote is often misunderstood. Many people assume that the author of this quote is telling them that he knows what they know and they should stop talking about it because he already knows it. This is not what the author was saying at all. He was actually stating that in order to understand the ways in which we learn, we need to talk about the common knowledge we already have. We can't learn anything new when we constantly focus on what we already know and already know what we know.
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