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"… one damn thing after another … one damn thing over and over."

January 1, 1970

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from an October 1930 letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, as variously described by her biographers, e.g.: — [L]ife was not so much "one damn thing after another" as "one damn thing over and over" — As paraphrased ("she had sent [...] a half-comic note, complaining that...") with quoted phrases in Jean Gould, The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1969), p. 198

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from an October 1930 letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, as variously described by her biographers, e.g.: — [L]ife was not so much "one damn thing after another" as "one damn thing over and over" — As paraphrased ("she had sent [...] a half-comic note, complaining that...") with quoted phrases in Jean Gould, The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1969), p. 198