Jack Johnson (musician) (1975) American musician
Middle Man.
Song lyrics, Brushfire Fairytales (2001)
“Nothing…. Alone a man is nothing….. I wish I had some way to give the meaning of my life to others…. To make a bridge from man to man…. We must find some way of being good to ourselves…. Man is all we've got.”
— Richard Wright, book The Outsider
The Outsider (1953)
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Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt:
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As quoted in Think, Vol. 4-5 (1938), p. 32
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Reginald Maudling (1917–1979) British politician
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Attributed
“Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
Variant: Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the
way.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 129.
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Last words, as quoted in John Gibson Lockhart Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. VII (1838), p. 294