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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.
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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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Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
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