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 SPRINGSTEENIs a dream a lie if it don’t come true? Or is it something worse?
More Bruce Springsteen Quotes
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Outside the street’s on fire in a real death waltz between what’s flesh and what’s fantasy.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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We’ve got no fairytale ending, in God’s hands our fate is complete. Your heaven’s here in my heart, our love’s this dust beneath my feet.
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Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
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Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night.
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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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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.
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Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that’s where the fun is.
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I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.
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What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
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It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.
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You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.
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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
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We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.
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It’s a town full of losers And I’m pulling out of here to win.
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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
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The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
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Tonight I’m stepping lightly and I’m feeling no pain.
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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
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If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
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All people have is hope. That’s what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring. A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family.
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We’re gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it’s gonna be alright.
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I’m ready to grow young again.
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