It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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