If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVMy own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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