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Balls Quote by Anton Chekhov

“In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details,…” quote by Anton Chekhov
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“In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.”

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