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The secret of boring people li...

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

An artist must pass judgment o...

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 482 quotes

When all is said and done, no ...

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.

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I am not a liberal, not a cons...

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.

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You confuse two things: solvin...

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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When asked, 'Why do you alway...

When asked, 'Why do you always wear black?', he said, 'I am mourning for my life.

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Useless pursuits and conversat...

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from itЂ'just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

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There should be more sincerity...

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

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I don't understand anything ab...

I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

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I was oppressed with a sense o...

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

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If an intelligent, educated, a...

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is n

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Even in Siberia there is happi...

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

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I am dying. I haven't drunk ch...

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

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This life of ours...human life...

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

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I think human beings must have...

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

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If there is a gun hanging on t...

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

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When you describe the miserabl...

When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

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Cross out as many adjectives a...

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: 'The man sat on the grass,' because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: 'The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully.' The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must b

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I've been reading reviews of m...

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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There ought to be a man with a...

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

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