"How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to."

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I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.

— Sherman Alexie