Barry Cunningham

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The curse of knowledge is insidious, because it conceals not only the contents of our thoughts from us but their very form. When we know something well, we don’t realize how abstractly we think about it. And we forget that other people, who have lived their own lives, have not gone through our idiosyncratic histories of abstractification.
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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