Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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My 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.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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