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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.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.
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