I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENIf 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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You can’t shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.
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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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What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
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Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night.
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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
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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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The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
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Two hearts are better than one.
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A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
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The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
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Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain’t got the faith to stand its ground. Blow away the dreams that tear you apart. Blow away the dreams that break your heart. Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
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The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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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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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
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