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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
Written by John Lennon
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Written by John Lennon
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Written by John Lennon
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Written by John Lennon
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
Written by John Lennon
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
Written by John Lennon
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
Written by John Lennon
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
Written by John Lennon
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
Written by John Lennon
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Written by John Lennon
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
Written by John Lennon
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Written by John Lennon
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
Written by John Lennon
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Written by John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Written by John Lennon
The more I see the less I know for sure.
Written by John Lennon
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
Written by John Lennon
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
Written by John Lennon
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
Written by John Lennon
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
Written by John Lennon
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
Written by John Lennon
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Written by John Lennon
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Written by John Lennon
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
Written by John Lennon
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
Written by John Lennon
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
Written by John Lennon
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
Written by John Lennon
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
Written by John Lennon
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
Written by John Lennon
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
Written by John Lennon

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