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- From: slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: springsteen quotes
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 22:19:25 GMT
- Organization: Bat Radar Studies, UC Berkeley
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- > jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
- > <various Springsteen quotes>
-
- "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?"
- from The River
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- "I ain't no hero, that's understood
- All the redemption I can offer is beneath this dirty hood"
- from Thunder Road
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- "In the part of town where you hit a red light you don't stop,
- Johnny was waving his gun around threatening to blow his top"
- from Johnny 99
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- Actually the whole Nebraska album was pretty depressing. Great stuff though.
- Besides, Bruce is the only songwriter I know who found a decent rhyme with
- "reservoir"...
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- -Shelley Louie
- "My other account is on a Cray."
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