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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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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
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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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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
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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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It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.
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And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.
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To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
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The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
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All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table what is national is no longer science.
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