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.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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