Anton Chekhov Quotes, Sorry Quotes, Years Quotes

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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I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

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Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

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It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

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Only entropy comes easy.

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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

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In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.

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