"A writer should not so much write as……" — Anton Chekhov
"A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious."
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Anton Chekhov
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246 Quotes by Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov has 246 quotes on this site.
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with…
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you…
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every…
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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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Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy…
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Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the…
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Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say…
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I’m trying to embroider.” Hyacinth held up her handiwork as proof. “You’re trying to avoid—” Her mother stopped, blinking. “I…
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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
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Concentrate, don't embroider.
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