They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-" Where are you going?" which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, "Where are you going?"- Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society "Looking for peace. Jack Kerouac
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