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22 March 2012
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You all know you quote I’m talking about, right?
“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 told them they didn’t understand life.”
I Googled the quote but I couldn’t find a source and I was wondering, is there any proof that John Lennon actually said this?
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9.21pm
4 December 2010
Offline He didn’t say it. The quote is made up, appeared on tumblr and then spread around Facebook.
For one thing, he didn’t have a relationship with Julia when he was five.
I told her I didn’t
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22 March 2012
Offline That’s exactly why I thought it was fake. Thank you.
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19 September 2010
Offline Actually, I’m not so sure. Lennon was moved to Mimi at the age of five (if I remember correctly), so the dates aren’t automatically wrong. Any other proof? Because the quote sounds perfectly Lennonesque to me.
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20 August 2013
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I tripped across this thread looking for something else. It doesn’t look like it got fully answered back then. Some folks were talking about this topic recently in another thread. I hope someone will write out the explanation here in this thread.
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1 May 2011
Offline Its also covered in another thread in a bit more conversation but no amount of searching brought it up.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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29 August 2013
Offline Multiple mod power and we’re still not sure! 
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Got it/one – from here. Google search was the answer bringing these results.
And from that conversation here is one site that says its not a John quote.
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20 August 2013
Offline I didn’t look for the thread last night. I was half asleep when I made that post. I just remembered that it had been discussed recently. I didn’t want someone using Google to trip across this thread and not find the truth. I brought up the issue hoping someone would pick up the torch. Thanks for doing so, mmm.
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29 August 2013
Offline Ahhh Girl said
I didn’t look for the thread last night. I was half asleep when I made that post. I just remembered that it had been discussed recently. I didn’t want someone using Google to trip across this thread and not find the truth. I brought up the issue hoping someone would pick up the torch. Thanks for doing so, mmm.
I think he picked up the torch and hit me over the head with it.
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I didn’t look for the thread last night. I was half asleep when I made that post. I just remembered that it had been discussed recently. I didn’t want someone using Google to trip across this thread and not find the truth. I brought up the issue hoping someone would pick up the torch. Thanks for doing so, mmm.
There’s a bit of discussion in the “Miscellaneous questions about John” thread, which I was skimming last night. (Was it updated recently? can’t remember)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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20 August 2013
Offline Could be it. My head is a bit jumbled by this cold.
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29 August 2013
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Could be it. My head is a bit jumbled by this cold.
Hope it’s better soon – you can’t afford too many of those psychedelic lozenges!
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18 April 2013
Offline That quote has just obviously seemed fake to me. There are a lot of those going around on Facebook.
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11 November 2010
Offline I’m pretty sure that this quote is fake. I was seeing it online years before it started being attributed to John Lennon .
Anyway, I hope that it’s not real because it’s a very stupid thing to say.
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It’s 100% fake…he never EVER said it and it’s never been found where he has said it anywhere, ever. It pisses me off to no end when I see people posting it with his picture all over the internet!
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Offline I wasn’t sure where to post this, so this thread is probably the best place.
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From that article:
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Offline Thanks @Zig. I love me Peanuts.
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Thanks @Zig. I love me Peanuts.
Me too! My mom likes to tell the tale that I taught myself to read with Peanuts. I always picked Peanuts books for them to read to me and one time I just took over reading it myself, I was 4.
On topic: Would even a precocious 5 year old think to answer back “you don’t understand life”? John still could have said (as an adult) that he said it (as a 5yo) even if he was just making it up – but the fact that he didn’t say it has been established. Just adding another thought…
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