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Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving a beautiful corpse, there is something to be said for living. Personally, I like my gods old, grizzled and here.
Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving a beautiful corpse, there is something to be said for living. Personally, I like my gods old, grizzled and here.
Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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- Bruce Springsteen
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- Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Bruce Springsteen: documented activity in 1969. Wikidata Q1225, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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