
“I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.”
Cryptic response to claims that he is a racist
"Helter Skelter," from "The Beatles (White Album)" (1968)
“I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.”
Cryptic response to claims that he is a racist
“I've got a blister from touching everything I see
The abyss opens up
It steals everything from me”
"Softer, Softest"
Song lyrics, Live Through This (1994)
Attributed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, reporting what a "friend, the private secretary of a cabinet minister", told him about a conversation with Lincoln, whom the friend had met alone in the White House in August 1864. Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. The Story of a Picture. New York 1866, p. 275 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ny0OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA275&dq=blister
Posthumous attributions
“Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.”
Shangri-la
Teases and Dares (1984)
Money for Nothing, written with Sting
Song lyrics, Brothers in Arms (1985)
“The hooks have got to come off and I can wait. They are nothing but sore fingers.”
Charles Frederick Webber interviewed at a field hospital following the Battle of Gettysburg. He was holding his hand, from which the ends of four fingers had been shot off. He was smoking his pipe with with no sense of urgency and was allowing more wounded soldiers to go ahead of him. He died on July 19, 1863, 13 days after the wound, from the subsequent infection.
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Source: [The Wounded, New York Herald, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/New_York_Herald/1863/The_Wounded, July 6 1863]