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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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