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Laura Marling

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Laura Marling

Wisdom

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Laura Marling is saying that getting older doesn’t automatically make someone wiser, even though people often think it does. She points out that being negative or critical is sometimes mistaken for having deep understanding, but she doesn’t believe she truly possesses that kind of knowledge.

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