Chekhov Quotes - Page 4

• Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Stories, Shooting

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• English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

  Jane Gardam

  Country, Archer, Ethics

  Jane Gardam (2007). “The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories”, Random House

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• The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

  George Steiner

  Art, Drama, Forever

  George Steiner (1980). “The death of tragedy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Men, Masters

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• Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Keys, Light, Moments

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