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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.

Anton Chekhov

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
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
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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Feeling Heart Heart Broken Marvelous Myself Thinking
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
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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Cruelty Ego Happiness People Seperate Understand Unity White
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
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Alcohol Bed Death Lying
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Age Education Learning Time Wisdom
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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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality

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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