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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
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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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
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[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature 2. total objectivity 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects 4. extreme brevity 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype 6. compassion.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.
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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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When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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