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 SPRINGSTEENEverybody’s got a hungry heart.
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The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
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We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another. We took care of one another. In the end, we kept faith in each other.
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Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
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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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There’s an opera out on the turnpike, there’s a ballet being fought out in the alley.
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It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear.
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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers.
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You can’t be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you’re gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
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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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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
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Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
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The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.
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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’.
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If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.
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