Source: High Stakes Seduction
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Sometimes quoted as "Nothing good ever dies."
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Source: The Shawshank Redemption
Source: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. V: Government and Law, p. 75
“I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen.”
"The Best Damn Thing" on The Best Damn Thing (2007)
“… one damn thing after another … one damn thing over and over.”
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
[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over
As paraphrased ("she writes that...") and apparently Bowlderized in Miriam Gurko, Restless spirit: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1962), p. 197
[I]t was not true that life is one damn thing after another — it was one damn thing over and over
As paraphrased ("Edna had written [...] that...") in Joan Dash, A Life of One's Own: Three Gifted Women and the Men they Married (1973), p. 189
The paraphrase by Dash appears to be the origin of later popularly attributed variants, e.g.:
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.
As attributed without citation in Psychoanalysis Today: A Case Book (1991) by Elizabeth Thorne and Shirley Herscovitch Schaye, p. 93
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
On the end of Gilmore Girls, while taping an interview for the May 8, 2007 Ellen DeGeneres Show
Gilmore's Graham: Cancellation Is "Best" for Show, TVGuide.com, 2007-05-04 http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Todays-News/Gilmores-Graham-Cancellation/800014283,
“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
“Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.”
"Anne Baxter Dies at 62, 8 Days After Her Stroke" (1985)
