The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVWe learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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