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These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
John Lennon
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John Lennon
Age: 40 †
Born: 1940
Born: October 9
Died: 1980
Died: December 8
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I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.
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Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
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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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