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Bruce Springsteen1 quote
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true,
Or is it something worse? — Bruce Springsteen · 1980Fantine1 quote
Life has killed the dream I dreamed. — Fantine · 2012Langston Hughes1 quote
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore -
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over -
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode? — Langston Hughes · 1951