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From Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
- One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair,…
- A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What…
- 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…
- 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.
- My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about…
- We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
- When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he…
- Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
- In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
- Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
- I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm…
- Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
- It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present…
- And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve…
- The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the…
- Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows…
- 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,…
- What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle…
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