Epigraph envy

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

This is one of those thoughts that, in your head, had seemed so original--until you realized Anton said it better than you could have ever thought it. 

So now I'm quoting the New Yorker quoting Perillo quoting Chekhov. 

It's the epigraph in Perillo's new collection of poetry Inseminating the Elephant, which makes me want to go out and buy the book.