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Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

by John Lydon

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“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
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“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
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“I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.”
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