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Anton Chekhov - From the Advice category:
To advise is not to compel. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Artists category:
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Artists category:
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Artists category:
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Boredom category:
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Commerce category:
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Criticism category:
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has neither. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Critics category:
If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Difficulty category:
Only entropy comes easy. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Drunkenness category:
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 drunk up a whole barrel. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Education category:
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Environment category:
- b.1860 d.1904...
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Exhaustion category:
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Failure category:
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Faith category:
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Freedom category:
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Frustration category:
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Future category:
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Gender category:
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Happiness category:
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Health category:
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Hope category:
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Humanity category:
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Journey category:
If you cry 'forward,' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Life category:
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Light category:
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Loneliness category:
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Money category:
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Nature category:
-b.1860 d.1904...
Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Peace category:
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Philosophy category:
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Problems category:
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Profession category:
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and iterature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Prosperity category:
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Sadness category:
-The Seagull, act 1 (1896)...
Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I'm in mourning for my life, I'm unhappy. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Seeing category:
I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Simplicity category:
Brevity is the sister of talent. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Solitude category:
People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Standards category:
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a god. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Talent category:
There is nothing new in art except talent. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Thinking category:
Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Trust category:
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Words category:
I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Work category:
If you want to work on your art, work on your life. (Anton Chekhov)
Anton Chekhov - From the Writing category:
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. (Anton Chekhov)
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