The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

You know what it's like when two people start a conversation. First one of them does all the talking, the other breaks in with "That's just like me, I..." and goes on talking about himself until his partner finds a chance to say "That's just like me, I..."
The "That's just like me, I...'s" may look like a form of agreement, a way of carrying the other party's idea a step further, but that's an illusion. What they really are is a brute revolt against brute force, an attempt to free one's ear from bondage, a frontal attack the objective of which is to occupy the enemy's ear. All man's life among men is nothing more than a battle for the ears of others.

Milan Kundera