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.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you want to work on your art, work on your life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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