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One 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.
- One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
- A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
- When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one…
- [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]…
- Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it…
- 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…
- If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put…
- The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal…
- 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…
- One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean…
- One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
- When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you;…
- Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I…
- People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance…
- The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates…
- The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad…
- One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,
- 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…
- In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
- Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
- My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that…
- 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…
- Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of…
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