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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
-Merle Shain
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One Often Learns More From Ten Days

Merle Shain
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Some days felt longer than other days. some days felt like two whole days. unfortunately those days were never weekend days. our saturdays and sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. in other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.
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Controlled hysteria is what's required. to exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. it's agony. but everyone has agony. the difference is that i try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.
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