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.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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