--- title: "26 Anton Chekhov Quotes by 22 authors" description: "Browse 26 Anton Chekhov quotes by 22 authors. Discover the best Anton Chekhov sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/f-h-buckley-2-99927_anton-chekhov_anton-chekhov-said-that-when-the-audienc_898746.jpg" --- > [“Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-h-buckley-2/anton-chekhov-said-that-when-the-audience-sees-a-loaded-pistol-on-the/) [F.H. Buckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-h-buckley-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/f-h-buckley-2-99927_anton-chekhov_anton-chekhov-said-that-when-the-audienc_898746.jpg) > [“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint on the broken glass.” Anton Chekhov”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-s-hartmetz/don-t-tell-me-the-moon-is-shining-show-me-the-glint-on-the-broken/) [Richard S. Hartmetz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-s-hartmetz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/richard-s-hartmetz-71617_broken-glass_don-t-tell-me-the-moon-is-shining-show-m_2728334.jpg) > [ \[Anton\] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/anton-chekhov-is-the-most-produced-playwright-in-the-world-after/) [Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92e/robert-dessaix-21751_audience_anton-chekhov-is-the-most-produced-playw_3211750.png) > [“Don't tell me the moon is shining. Show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chekhov”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-rosenberg/don-t-tell-me-the-moon-is-shining-show-me-the-glint-of-light-on/) [Allen Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-rosenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d7/allen-rosenberg-100255_broken-glass_don-t-tell-me-the-moon-is-shining-show-m_1980756.jpg) > [“Anton Chekhov wisely said, “"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/anton-chekhov-wisely-said-the-task-of-a-writer-is-not-to-solve-the/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d4/anonymous-1_chekhov_anton-chekhov-wisely-said-the-task-of-a_2725982.jpg) > [I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-zauner/i-read-lorrie-moore-and-marilynne-robinson-and-jhumpa-lahiri-and/) [Michelle Zauner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-zauner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/michelle-zauner-5132_john_i-read-lorrie-moore-and-marilynne-robins_1226741.jpg) > [“Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/anton-chekhov-famously-said-that-a-gun-appearing-in-the-first-act-of/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/yuval-noah-harari-100_chekhov_anton-chekhov-famously-said-that-a-gun-a_499252.jpg) > [My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-wilder/my-favorite-author-is-anton-chekhov-not-so-much-for-the-plays-but-for/) [Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-wilder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c1/gene-wilder-3914_books_my-favorite-author-is-anton-chekhov-not_2362406.png) > [In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chang-rae-lee/in-my-teaching-i-try-to-expose-my-students-to-the-widest-range-of/) [Chang-Rae Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chang-rae-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49d/chang-rae-lee-3318_aesthetic_in-my-teaching-i-try-to-expose-my-studen_3083224.png) > [“Beauties” by Anton Chekhov, “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger, “Brownies” or “Drinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-zevin/beauties-by-anton-chekhov-the-doll-s-house-by-katherine-mansfield-a/) [Gabrielle Zevin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-zevin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37c/gabrielle-zevin-626_beauties_beauties-by-anton-chekhov-the-doll-s-hou_2952949.png) > [ I did \[Henrik\] Ibsen and \[Anton\] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-manganiello/i-did-henrik-ibsen-and-anton-chekhov-for-years-obviously-i-didn-t-get/) [Joe Manganiello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-manganiello/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/joe-manganiello-8246_chekhov_i-did-henrik-ibsen-and-anton-chekhov-for_980127.jpg) > [“Over the last seventy years humankind has broken not only the Law of the Jungle, but also the Chekhov Law. Anton Chekhov…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/over-the-last-seventy-years-humankind-has-broken-not-only-the-law-of/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/yuval-noah-harari-100_law_over-the-last-seventy-years-humankind-ha_2190111.jpg) > [“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London. My favorite quote. : ) Don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reggi-allder/you-can-t-wait-for-inspiration-you-have-to-go-after-it-with-a-club/) [Reggi Allder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reggi-allder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aca/reggi-allder-272079_broken-glass_you-can-t-wait-for-inspiration-you-have_230680.jpg) > [Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-chekhov-saying-to-him-in-1899/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/anton-chekhov-298_chekhov_do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-che_1708016.jpg) > [I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainn-wilson/i-really-like-the-stuff-that-is-very-absurd-and-very-real-at-the-same/) [Rainn Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainn-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/rainn-wilson-4323_absurd_i-really-like-the-stuff-that-is-very-abs_1661039.png) > [I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-was-deeply-influenced-by-the-sartorial-practices-of-both-preachers/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/151/cornel-west-708_black_i-was-deeply-influenced-by-the-sartorial_2414208.jpg) > [I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/i-think-that-maybe-happy-families-don-t-need-stories-the-way-unhappy/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de9/peter-orner-12957_ambiguous_i-think-that-maybe-happy-families-don-t_1998340.jpg) > [Film and television as a medium has only very recently begun to be taught at the great drama schools in the UK.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-callis/film-and-television-as-a-medium-has-only-very-recently-begun-to-be/) [James Callis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-callis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/james-callis-19048_actor_film-and-television-as-a-medium-has-only_157594.jpg) > [I wouldn't recommend it, because art school is a funny business. Yes, if you can find a situation where they'll give you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigourney-weaver/i-wouldn-t-recommend-it-because-art-school-is-a-funny-business-yes-if/) [Sigourney Weaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigourney-weaver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/987/sigourney-weaver-4349_acting_i-wouldn-t-recommend-it-because-art-scho_571411.jpg) > [There's a great Anton Chekhov quote. He says, "The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love living." That scene has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/there-s-a-great-anton-chekhov-quote-he-says-the-russian-loves/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41e/peter-orner-12957_chekhov_there-s-a-great-anton-chekhov-quote-he-s_1719914.jpg) > [“Anton Chekhov tells the truth neither out of love or respect for the truth, nor yet because, in the Kantian manner, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/anton-chekhov-tells-the-truth-neither-out-of-love-or-respect-for-the/) [Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/023/lev-shestov-12374_chekhov_anton-chekhov-tells-the-truth-neither-ou_485033.jpg) > [“In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/in-anton-chekhov-s-play-the-three-sisters-sister-masha-refuses-to/) [Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/chet-raymo-34749_astronomy_in-anton-chekhov-s-play-the-three-sister_506286.jpg) > [“However, we should not confuse ability with motivation. Though cyber warfare introduces new means of destruction, it doesn’t necessarily add new incentives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/however-we-should-not-confuse-ability-with-motivation-though-cyber/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/yuval-noah-harari-100_cold-war_however-we-should-not-confuse-ability-wi_143893.jpg) > [“Ethnocentrism, xenophobia and nationalism are these days rife in many parts of the world. Government repression of unpopular views is still widespread.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/ethnocentrism-xenophobia-and-nationalism-are-these-days-rife-in-many/) [Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/358/carl-sagan-160_nationalism_ethnocentrism-xenophobia-and-nationalism_1934760.jpg) > [“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/one-more-nice-thing-about-short-stories-is-that-you-can-create-a/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/haruki-murakami-21_learn-from-your-mist_one-more-nice-thing-about-short-stories_700641.jpg) > [“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is day to day living that wears you out. —Anton Chekhov”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/any-idiot-can-face-a-crisis-it-is-day-to-day-living-that-wears-you/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/anonymous-1_chekhov_any-idiot-can-face-a-crisis-it-is-day-to_214939.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anton-chekhov/#itemlist", "name": "Anton Chekhov Quotes", "numberOfItems": 26, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "F.H. 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Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. 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D. Salinger, “Brownies” or “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” both by ZZ Packer, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel, “Fat” by Raymond Carver, “Indian Camp”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabrielle Zevin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-zevin/beauties-by-anton-chekhov-the-doll-s-house-by-katherine-mansfield-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37c/gabrielle-zevin-626_beauties_beauties-by-anton-chekhov-the-doll-s-hou_2952949.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37c/gabrielle-zevin-626_beauties_beauties-by-anton-chekhov-the-doll-s-hou_2952949.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37c/gabrielle-zevin-626_beauties_beauties-by-anton-chekhov-the-doll-s-hou_2952949.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Beauties” by Anton Chekhov, “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J…” — Gabrielle Zevin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, \"You ride the horse the direction it's going.\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joe Manganiello" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-manganiello/i-did-henrik-ibsen-and-anton-chekhov-for-years-obviously-i-didn-t-get/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/joe-manganiello-8246_chekhov_i-did-henrik-ibsen-and-anton-chekhov-for_980127.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/joe-manganiello-8246_chekhov_i-did-henrik-ibsen-and-anton-chekhov-for_980127.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/joe-manganiello-8246_chekhov_i-did-henrik-ibsen-and-anton-chekhov-for_980127.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have…” — Joe Manganiello", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Over the last seventy years humankind has broken not only the Law of the Jungle, but also the Chekhov Law. Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout history, if kings and emperors acquired some new weapon, sooner or later they were tempted to use it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yuval Noah Harari" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/over-the-last-seventy-years-humankind-has-broken-not-only-the-law-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/yuval-noah-harari-100_law_over-the-last-seventy-years-humankind-ha_2190111.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/yuval-noah-harari-100_law_over-the-last-seventy-years-humankind-ha_2190111.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/yuval-noah-harari-100_law_over-the-last-seventy-years-humankind-ha_2190111.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Over the last seventy years humankind has broken not only the Law of the Jungle, but also the Chekhov Law…” — Yuval Noah Harari", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London. My favorite quote. : ) Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Reggi Allder" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reggi-allder/you-can-t-wait-for-inspiration-you-have-to-go-after-it-with-a-club/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aca/reggi-allder-272079_broken-glass_you-can-t-wait-for-inspiration-you-have_230680.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aca/reggi-allder-272079_broken-glass_you-can-t-wait-for-inspiration-you-have_230680.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aca/reggi-allder-272079_broken-glass_you-can-t-wait-for-inspiration-you-have_230680.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London. My favorite quote. : )…” — Reggi Allder", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Do you know,\" Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, \"for how many years I shall be read? Seven.\" \"Why seven?\" Bunin asked. \"Well,\" Chekhov answered, \"seven and a half then.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anton Chekhov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-chekhov-saying-to-him-in-1899/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/anton-chekhov-298_chekhov_do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-che_1708016.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/anton-chekhov-298_chekhov_do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-che_1708016.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/anton-chekhov-298_chekhov_do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-che_1708016.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Do you know,\" Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life…” — Anton Chekhov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rainn Wilson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainn-wilson/i-really-like-the-stuff-that-is-very-absurd-and-very-real-at-the-same/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/rainn-wilson-4323_absurd_i-really-like-the-stuff-that-is-very-abs_1661039.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/rainn-wilson-4323_absurd_i-really-like-the-stuff-that-is-very-abs_1661039.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/rainn-wilson-4323_absurd_i-really-like-the-stuff-that-is-very-abs_1661039.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. 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Maybe they're too busy living that they don't actually step back and talk about life like the Anton Chekhov quote. I prefer Anton Chekhov to Lev Tolstoy, and the reason is because of what he leaves out. Sometimes I think Tolstoy had a theory that he was proving and he proved it. 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Yes, if you can find a situation where they'll give you money to live at the school and do whatever you want and pay for all your materials, if you're a painter or maybe a filmmaker, do it. 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The stories that everybody carries around and repeats, I am really interested in that.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Orner" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/there-s-a-great-anton-chekhov-quote-he-says-the-russian-loves/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41e/peter-orner-12957_chekhov_there-s-a-great-anton-chekhov-quote-he-s_1719914.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41e/peter-orner-12957_chekhov_there-s-a-great-anton-chekhov-quote-he-s_1719914.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41e/peter-orner-12957_chekhov_there-s-a-great-anton-chekhov-quote-he-s_1719914.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There's a great Anton Chekhov quote. 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Either you know and you’re alive or it’s all nonsense, all dust in the wind.’ Why? Why? The striving to know is what frees us from the bonds of self, said Einstein. It’s the striving to know, rather than our knowledge-which is always tentative and partial- that is important. Instead of putting computers in our elementary schools, we should take the children out into nature, away from those virtual worlds in which they spend unconscionable hours, and let them see an eclipsed Moon rising in the east, a pink pearl. Let them stand in a morning dawn and watch a slip of a comet fling its trail around the Sun…Let the children know. Let them know that nothing, nothing will find in the virtual world of e-games, television, or the Internet matters half as much as a glitter of strs on an inky sky, drawing our attention into the incomprehensible mystery of why the universe is here at all, and why we are here to observe it. 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Though cyber warfare introduces new means of destruction, it doesn’t necessarily add new incentives to use them. Over the last seventy years humankind has broken not only the Law of the Jungle, but also the Chekhov Law. Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout history, if kings and emperors acquired some new weapon, sooner or later they were tempted to use it. Since 1945, however, humankind has learned to resist this temptation. The gun that appeared in the first act of the Cold War was never fired. By now we are accustomed to living in a world full of undropped bombs and unlaunched missiles, and have become experts in breaking both the Law of the Jungle and the Chekhov Law.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yuval Noah Harari" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/however-we-should-not-confuse-ability-with-motivation-though-cyber/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/yuval-noah-harari-100_cold-war_however-we-should-not-confuse-ability-wi_143893.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/yuval-noah-harari-100_cold-war_however-we-should-not-confuse-ability-wi_143893.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/yuval-noah-harari-100_cold-war_however-we-should-not-confuse-ability-wi_143893.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“However, we should not confuse ability with motivation. 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Scientists are naturally cosmo­politan in attitude and are more likely to see through efforts to divide the human family into many small and warring factions. 'There is no national science,' said the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, 'just as there is no national multiplication table.' 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You can learn from your mistakes (in other words, those you can't call complete success) and use that in the next story you write.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Haruki Murakami" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/one-more-nice-thing-about-short-stories-is-that-you-can-create-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/haruki-murakami-21_learn-from-your-mist_one-more-nice-thing-about-short-stories_700641.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/haruki-murakami-21_learn-from-your-mist_one-more-nice-thing-about-short-stories_700641.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/haruki-murakami-21_learn-from-your-mist_one-more-nice-thing-about-short-stories_700641.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea…” — Haruki Murakami", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 26, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is day to day living that wears you out. —Anton Chekhov”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/any-idiot-can-face-a-crisis-it-is-day-to-day-living-that-wears-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/anonymous-1_chekhov_any-idiot-can-face-a-crisis-it-is-day-to_214939.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/anonymous-1_chekhov_any-idiot-can-face-a-crisis-it-is-day-to_214939.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/anonymous-1_chekhov_any-idiot-can-face-a-crisis-it-is-day-to_214939.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is day to day living that wears you out. —Anton Chekhov” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anton-chekhov/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anton-chekhov/", "name": "Anton Chekhov Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anton-chekhov/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/f-h-buckley-2-99927_anton-chekhov_anton-chekhov-said-that-when-the-audienc_898746.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 26 Anton Chekhov quotes by 22 authors. 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