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It's Better To Fade Away Like An Old Soldier Than To Burn Out. I Don't Appreciate Worship Of Dead Sid Vicious Or Of Dead James Dean Or Of Dead John Wayne. It's The Same Thing. Making Sid Vicious A Hero, Jim Morrison - It's Garbage To Me. I Worship The People Who Survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

-John Lennon

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It's Better To Fade

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It's Better To Fade Away Like An Old Soldier Than To Burn Out. I Don't Appreciate Worship Of Dead Sid Vicious Or Of Dead James Dean Or Of Dead John Wayne. It's The Same Thing. Making Sid Vicious A Hero, Jim Morrison - It's Garbage To Me. I Worship The People Who Survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

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