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My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
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You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.
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I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.
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Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.
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I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.
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Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are
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I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.
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