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I Was Stuck In The Feeling That One Did Not--was Not Justified In Being Alive Unless One Was Fulfilling Other People's Dreams, Whether They Were Contractual Dreams Or The Public's Dreams, Or Fulfilling My Own Dreams And Illusions About What I Thought I Was Supposed To Be, Which, In Retrospect, Turned Out To Not Be What I Am.

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I Was Stuck In

John Lennon

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I Was Stuck In The Feeling That One Did Not--was Not Justified In Being Alive Unless One Was Fulfilling Other People's Dreams, Whether They Were Contractual Dreams Or The Public's Dreams, Or Fulfilling My Own Dreams And Illusions About What I Thought I Was Supposed To Be, Which, In Retrospect, Turned Out To Not Be What I Am.

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If You're An Unknown Artist You're Lucky To Get An Hour In A Studio - It's A Hierarchy And If You Don't Have Hits, You Don't Get Recorded Again.

If There Hadn't Been An Elvis, There Wouldn't Have Been The Beatles.

There Is No Denying That We Are Still Living In The Capitalist World. I Think That In Order To Survive And To Change The World, You Have To Take Care Of Yourself First. You Have To Survive Yourself.

In One Way, I Was Always Hip. I Was Hip In Kindergarten. I Was Different From The Others. There Was Something Wrong With Me, I Thought, Because I Seemed To See Things People Didn't See. I Always Saw Things In A Hallucinatory Way.

Being Different

Love Is The Answer, And You Know That For Sure; Love Is A Flower, You've Got To Let It Grow.

Whenever In Doubt, Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, And Float Downstream.

Produce Your Own Dream. If You Want To Save Peru, Go Save Peru. It’s Quite Possible To Do Anything, But Not If You Put It On The Leaders And The Parking Meters. Don’t Expect Carter Or Reagan Or John Lennon Or Yoko Ono Or Bob Dylan Or Jesus Christ To Come And Do It For You. You Have To Do It Yourself.

'oh! Darling' Was A Great One Of Paul's That He Didn't Sing Too Well. I Always Thought I Could Have Done It Better-it Was More My Style Than His. He Wrote It, So What The Hell, He's Going To Sing It.

We're All God. I'm Not A God Or The God, But We're All God And We're All Potentially Divine - And Potentially Evil.

There's Nothing New Under The Sun. All The Roads Lead To Rome. And People Cannot Provide It For You. I Can't Wake You Up. You Can Wake You Up. I Can't Cure You. You Can Cure You.

When You're Thirty-five, You Can't Take As Much Booze ... And I Always Got A Little Violent On Drink...so It Was Kind Of Self-destructive Suicide Side Of Me, Which Is Resolving Itself For The Better, I Believe, Because I Never Enjoyed It.

Imagine No Possessions; I Wonder If You Can.

All I Want Is The Truth, Just Give Me Some Truth

I'd Like To Incite People To Break The Framework, To Be Disobedient In School, To Stick Their Tongues Out, To Keep Insulting Authority.

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