He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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