The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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