Source: Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others
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Famous Anton Chekhov Quotes
“Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”
“Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.”
Source: How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work
“One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.”
“Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.”
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“Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.”
“We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.”
“In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.”
“An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.”
“When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.”
“That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.”
“A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.”