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[polythene Pam] Was Me, Remembering A Little Event With A Woman In Jersey, And A Man Who Was England's Answer To Allen Ginsberg, Who Gave Us Our First Exposure - This Is So Long - You Can't Deal With All This. You See, Everything Triggers Amazing Memories. I Met Him When We Were On Tour And He Took Me Back To His Apartment And I Had A Girl And He Had One He Wanted Me To Meet. He Said She Dressed Up In Polythene, Which She Did. She Didn't Wear Jackboots And Kilts, I Just Sort Of Elaborated. Perverted Sex In A Polythene Bag. Just Looking For Something To Write About.

-John Lennon

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John Lennon

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[polythene Pam] Was Me, Remembering A Little Event With A Woman In Jersey, And A Man Who Was England's Answer To Allen Ginsberg, Who Gave Us Our First Exposure - This Is So Long - You Can't Deal With All This. You See, Everything Triggers Amazing Memories. I Met Him When We Were On Tour And He Took Me Back To His Apartment And I Had A Girl And He Had One He Wanted Me To Meet. He Said She Dressed Up In Polythene, Which She Did. She Didn't Wear Jackboots And Kilts, I Just Sort Of Elaborated. Perverted Sex In A Polythene Bag. Just Looking For Something To Write About.

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Don't Let Them Fool You With Dope And Cocaine, Can't Do You Know Harm To Feel Your Own Pain.

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Father, You Left Me, But I Never Left You.

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The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within You.

Christ Consciousness

We're Trying To Sell Peace, Like A Product, You Know, And Sell It Like People Sell Soap Or Soft Drinks. And It's The Only Way To Get People Aware That Peace Is Possible, And It Isn't Just Inevitable To Have Violence. Not Just War - All Forms Of Violence.

Everything Will Be Okay In The End. If It's Not Okay, It's Not The End.

Everybody Loves You When You're Six Foot In The Ground.

The Greatest Artists Always Come Round To Simplicity.

It Made Me High. It Really Did.

Without Jimmy Dean, The Beatles Never Would Have Existed.

The Trouble With Government As It Is, Is That It Doesn't Represent The People. It Controls Them.

As Someone From The Working Class I Was Always Interested In Russia And China And Everything That Related To The Working Class, Even Though I Was Playing The Capitalist Game.

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