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"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
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"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
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"All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names."
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"The Dark Powers have to give before they can take."
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"There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can."
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"Mind of myth sees ghost."
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"Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from."
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"According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half."
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"In the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."
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"If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees."
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"The Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants."
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"Lyricists play with words."
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"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
People
"George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money."
Anger
"I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing."
Nothing
"Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other."
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"I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition."
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"At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod."
Time
"We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells."
Wedding
"I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind."
Mind
"When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!"
Car
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