Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other
Anton ChekhovTag: literature medicine
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.
Anton ChekhovDear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
Anton ChekhovTag: books
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Anton ChekhovAnd only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
Anton ChekhovWisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton ChekhovTag: wisdom books education learning anton-chekhov
Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.
Anton ChekhovTag: humor realism loss-of-innocence the-cook-s-wedding tragi-comedy
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.
Anton ChekhovTag: chekhov
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.
Anton ChekhovThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
Anton ChekhovTag: social educational
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