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1. quoteinvestigator.com › 2015/09/02 › life-oneLife Is Just One Damn Thing After Another – Quote Investigator®

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   Sep 2, 2015 · Dear Quote Investigator: The following statement of exasperation and resignation has been attributed to the luminary Mark Twain, the aphorist Elbert Hubbard, and the journalist Frank Ward O’Malley: Life is just one damn thing after another. This situation is confusing.

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3. wordhistories.net › one-damned-thing-after-anotheris just one damned thing after another’ - word histories

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   Feb 27, 2020 · The phrase life is (just) one damn (ed), or darn (ed), thing after another means life consists of a succession of unpleasant or unlucky events. The following are the earliest occurrences of this phrase that I have found, up to July 1909—cf. note:

4. professorbuzzkill.com › 2017/09/13 › qnq-31Mark Twain: "Life is just one damn thing after another" Quote ...

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   Sep 13, 2017 · Like the statistics quote, the San Francisco winter quote, and the golf quote, there is no evidence at all that Twain ever said, “life is just one damn thing after another.” Like so many quote magnets (Churchill, Gandhi, Lincoln), Twain was one of the most recorded people in modern history.

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   Who said life is one damn thing after another?

   • It was Edna St. Vincent Millay who observed, “It is not true that life is one damn thing after another — it’s one damn thing over and over.” In 1968 “20,000 Quips and Quotes” by Evan Esar included the saying above and ascribed the words to Millay.

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   Is life a one damn thing after another?

   • Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. … one damn thing after another … one damn thing over and over. It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.

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   Is history just one damned thing after another?

   • Please note that QI has also examined another related saying: “History is just one damned thing after another”. The webpage is here. In January and February 1931 several U.S. newspapers printed a short filler item that contrasted the two acerbic statements about repetition within life. The “Atlanta Constitution” paper often was acknowledged:

   It’s Not True That Life Is One Damn Thing After Another—It’s One Damn

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   Is life one thing after another?

   • In a letter to Arthur Ficke she writes that life isn’t one thing after another, it’s the same thing over and over, “. . . first you get sick—then you get sicker—then you get not quite so sick—then you get hardly sick at all—then you get a little sicker—then you get a lot sicker. . . .”

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6. en.wikiquote.org › wiki › Edna_StEdna St. Vincent Millay - Wikiquote

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   Dec 2, 2023 · It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same dang thing over and over again. As attributed without citation in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner

7. www.brainyquote.com › quotes › edna_st_vincentEdna St. Vincent Millay - It's not true that life is one...

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   It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay