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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.

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When You're Thirty-five, You

John Lennon

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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.

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Will The People In The Cheaper Seats Clap Your Hands? And The Rest Of You, If You'll Just Rattle Your Jewelry.

I'm Not A God Or The God, But We're All God And We're All Potentially Divine - And Potentially Evil. We All Have Everything Within Us And The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Nigh And Within Us, And If You Look Hard Enough You'll See It.

Carrying The Beatles' Or The Sixties' Dream Around All Your Life Is Like Carrying The Second World War And Glenn Miller Around. That's Not To Say You Can't Enjoy Glenn Miller Or The Beatles, But To Live In That Dream Is The Twilight Zone. It's Not Living Now. It's An Illusion.

It Doesn't Matter How Long My Hair Is Or What Colour My Skin Is Or Whether I'm A Woman Or A Man.

It Looks Like I'm Going To Be 40 And Life Begins At 40 - So They Promise. And I Believe It, Too.

If Everyone Could Just Be Happy With Themselves And The Choices People Around Them Make, The World Would Instantly Be A Better Place!

In 'lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' I Was Visualizing Alice In Wonderland, An Image Of This Female Who Would Come And Save Me - A Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes Who Would Be The Real Love Of My Life. Lucy Turned Out To Be Yoko.

I Put Things Down On Sheets Of Paper And Stuff Them In My Pockets. When I Have Enough, I Have A Book.

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