Anton Chekhov Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Objectivity Quotes

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

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It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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

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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

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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 . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

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Brevity - the sister of talent.

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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.

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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

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