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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

Anton Chekhov

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
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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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
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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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
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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Myself People Reading Short Work
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Alcohol Bed Death Lying
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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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
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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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
What a delight it is to respect people!
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Delight People Respect
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
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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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Curiosity Marriage Myself Observation People

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