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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Family Friendship Hope Live People Reality World
If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Fake People Poet Writing Yourself
At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.
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Believe End Hard People Reason
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night’s busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.
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Hairs Night Place Travel Wind
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 SPRINGSTEEN

Breathe Carry Expression Fly Light Lying Train Truth World
I guess there’s just a meanness in this world.
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Myself Rude World
There’s an opera out on the turnpike, there’s a ballet being fought out in the alley.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Fight Music Place Valley
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Mindset Mom Music Sound Time Youreself
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Dedication Learning Music Myself Talk
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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Blow Break Broken Heart Dreams Faith Heart Leaving Lost Lying Stand Tear Yourself
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
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Action Audience Consistency Demand Hard Time
So let’s take the good times as they go and I’ll meet you further on up the road.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Goodness Journey Myself Path Road Time Travel
We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Born Children Inspirational Run Young
Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Death Serious Yourself
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
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Myself Story Tradition
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
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Explode Haunt Hungry Music

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