If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENI like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
More Bruce Springsteen Quotes
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If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
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I’m the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin’ I can do about it. It’s like, I’m a thinkin’ fool. That’s a big part of me.
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You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true? Or is it something worse?
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I’m ready to grow young again.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
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Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright, and that’s alright with me.
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Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
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We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.
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It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.
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