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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.
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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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.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
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What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?
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