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I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.
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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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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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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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
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Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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It's not a matter of old or new forms a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
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