Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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