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"Words of the Week" Jet (Sep 4, 1958)
            Book 1, Ch. 17 
My Antonia (1918)
        
“There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.”
"Words of the Week" Jet (Sep 4, 1958)
                                
                                    “I'm learning to fly,
But I ain't got wings.
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
                                        
                                        Learning to Fly, written with Jeff Lynne 
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
                                    
Source: Diane Sawyer interview (ABC, 1993)
                                        
                                        Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 216 
Memoirs (1993)
                                    
                                        
                                        As Good as I Once Was, written with Scotty Emerick 
Song lyrics, Honkytonk University (2005)
                                    
                                        
                                        Better Than I Used to Be 
Song lyrics, Emotional Traffic (2012)
                                    
                                        
                                        Major Michael Hogan, p. 172 
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle  (1995)
                                    
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 17
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                        