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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
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In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We wont be there to see it - but its why we live, why we work. Its why we suffer. Were creating it. Thats the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.
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Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.
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The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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