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Literature Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
- I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature…
- Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.
- I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I…
- But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his…
- When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already…
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