Anton Chekhov Quotes - Page 11

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• A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Paper, Should

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Example, Want

  Letter to L.A. Avilova, February 26, 1899.

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• I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

  Anton Chekhov

  Girl, Time, Drunk

  Letter to the Chekhov family, April 25, 1887.

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• ...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Love You, Heart

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2866, Delphi Classics

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• By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mistake, Imagine, Virtue

  "Ariadne". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Live Simply, Amusing

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• Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Childhood, Forever

  "The Bishop". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1902.

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• You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

  Anton Chekhov

  Eye, Looks, Life Is

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “Ten Plays”, p.308, Courier Corporation

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• It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stealing, Immoral

  "The Beggar". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

  Anton Chekhov

  Country, Talking, People

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “Ten Plays”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

  Anton Chekhov

  Artist, Criticism, Answers

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Lying, Men

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• Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

  Anton Chekhov

  Spirit, Talent, Born

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “About Love and Other Stories”, p.14, OUP Oxford

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• It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Scandal, Ruins

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Greatest Works of Anton Chekhov: Plays, Short Stories, Novel and A Biography (Including The Steppe, Ward No. 6, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, On Trial, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, After the Theatre and many more)”, p.297, e-artnow

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• Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Grief, Serenity

  Letter to K.S. Barantsevich, March 3, 1888.

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• Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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  Love, Respect, Hate

  "Psychologically Speaking: A Book of Quotations". Book by Kevin Connolly, Margaret Martlew, 1999.

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• A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Medicine, Interesting, Illness

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• When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

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  Kindness, Grief, Character

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• There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

  Anton Chekhov

  Monday, Tuesday

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• Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Mistake, Made

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• When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

  Anton Chekhov

  Grief, Heart, Giving

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics”

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• To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

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  Hero, Men, People

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.60, Modern Library

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• We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Women, Heart

  Letter to E.M. Shavrova, September 16, 1891.

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• Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

  Anton Chekhov

  Life Is, Please, Dreary

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• It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Literature, Easier

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, January 2, 1894.

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