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To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

Nancy Milford
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Nancy Milford (2001). “Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.11, Random House
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.