Anton Chekhov Quotes, Writing Quotes, Play Quotes

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

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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.

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It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

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All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

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

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The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

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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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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

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

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

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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!

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