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 CHEKHOVMan is what he believes.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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If 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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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