"Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation……" — Salman Rushdie
"Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…
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More Chekhov Quotes
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Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting…
— David Bailey
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if…
— Leon Edel
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Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it.…
— William Faulkner
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Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you…
— Emilia Clarke
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened,…
— Rachael Harris
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Im always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things…
— Dagmara Dominczyk
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I wasnt a Star Trek fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an…
— Marina Sirtis
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Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man;…
— Vasily Grossman
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Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity,…
— Carolyn Cooke
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There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom,…
— Chad Harbach
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"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life,…
— Anton Chekhov
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
— Uta Hagen
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