Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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Missattributed misquotation of "Just about anybody can face a crisis. It’s that everyday living that’s rough." This occurs in the screenplay of The Country Girl (1954) screenplay by George Seaton, based on a play by Clifford Odets, which was first misattributed to Chekov in 1981, according to Quote Investigator

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