Anton Chekhov Quotes, Clever Quotes, Writing Quotes

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

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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 we authors do most of our lying.

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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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My holy of holies is the human body.

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An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

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An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

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Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

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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.

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