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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Anton Chekhov

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Curiosity Marriage Myself Observation People
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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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
Women can’t forgive failure.
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Failure Forgiveness One Liner Woman
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Action Discussion Hero Himself Mindset State
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
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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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Earth Heart Snow Spring Yourself
There 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.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself

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