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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that’s really is idiotic (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn’t marry the right person (Anton Chekhov 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 (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field (Anton Chekhov 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 (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don’t be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
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. 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 Quotes)
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 (Anton Chekhov Quotes)
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs (Anton Chekhov Quotes)