Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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About John Lennon

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John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder of the Beatles, in which he was the co-lead vocalist and played rhythm guitar, later adopting lead and bass guitar, keyboards...

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Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is.

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

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

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We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are
trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must
be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose
unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and
international stage.… Changing the way we raise children is the only long-term path to peace or arms control, and neither
has ever been more crucial. As the feminist adage says, "The
personal is political.

—Gloria Steinem

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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

—George Henry Lewes

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

—Wallace Stevens

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I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.

—Jojo Moyes in Foreign Fruit

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