"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

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An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"?

— Paul Goodman