“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse?”
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"The River"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)
“Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.”
— Jean Rhys, book Wide Sargasso Sea
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
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