"Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about..." - Quote by John Lennon
Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
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“Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.”
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