“It is hard to grow up in a society in which one’s important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.”

—  Paul Goodman, book Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 36.

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American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist 1911–1972

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