For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite, write, write-till your fingers break.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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