"I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over."

Identity, Change, Dream, Loss

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"I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over."

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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Who would you impress if the world was blind?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Call me Richard. That's my real name. Call me that."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Today, Power

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

David Levithan, American Author

Identity, Connection, Desire, Defiance

"Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that."

David Levithan, American Author

Identity, Love, Complexity, Sexuality

"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Identity, Appearance, Age, Perception, Time

"But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Identity, Freedom, Snobbery, Detachment

"But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Identity, Absence, Memory, Mind

"We go to Europe to be Americanized."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Identity, Europe, Travel, Culture

"I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis."

Mary Teresa Norton, British Writer

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Explore more quotes by John Lennon

"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."

People

"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."

Possibility

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

Happiness

"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."

Pain

"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another."

Faith

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

Love

"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."

World

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

Imagination

"Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as one."

Peace

"It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!"

Love