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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work. — Anton Chekhov

It's been a long time since I've had champagne. — Anton Chekhov

MASHA: Isn't there some meaning?
TOOZENBACH: Meaning? ... Look out there, it's snowing. What's the meaning of that? — Anton Chekhov

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring. — Anton Chekhov

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think. — Anton Chekhov

With a smile, such as come into people's faces when they look at something little, foolish, and absurd, but warmly loved. — Anton Chekhov

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — Anton Chekhov

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm. — Anton Chekhov

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness. — Anton Chekhov

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. — Anton Chekhov

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anton Chekhov

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women? — Anton Chekhov

In twenty years I've found only one intelligent man in the whole town, and he's mad. — Anton Chekhov

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

Well, that's not at all clerical!" thought Kunin, shrugging his shoulders contemptuously. "What is it, priestly greed or childishness? — Anton Chekhov

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

A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after that a friend. — Anton Chekhov

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it. — Anton Chekhov

Why, if ever again... you dare to mention a single word... about my mother... I shall send you flying downstairs!" "What's — Anton Chekhov

It's hard to avoid the suspicion that in seeing all the trees I missed the wood — Anton Chekhov

What's the point? To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man. — Anton Chekhov

Nobody asks her not to understand! It's a lesson for these foreigners! — Anton Chekhov

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. — Annette Bening

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all. — Anton Chekhov

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable. — Anton Chekhov

He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny. — Lev Shestov

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment. — Anton Chekhov

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy. — Anton Chekhov

Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. — Anton Chekhov

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul. — Anton Chekhov

Hen one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing. — Anton Chekhov

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. — Anton Chekhov

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) — Anton Chekhov

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most. — Uta Hagen

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life. — Anton Chekhov

A good man's indifference is as good as any religion. — Anton Chekhov

Not. Lermontov's Tamara was lonely and she saw the devil. — Anton Chekhov

I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov's 'The Seagull.' — Juliet Rylance

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. — Anton Chekhov

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains. — Anton Chekhov

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty. — Anton Chekhov

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

That's what's wrong, that you don't think. — Anton Chekhov

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done. — Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things. — Anton Chekhov

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough. — Anton Chekhov

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

Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. — Anton Chekhov

Because in the end, we die. It's like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: 'in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here. — Zack Love

I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it. — Anton Chekhov

Ah yes, freedom! Even a hint of it, just the faintest hope of it, is enough to make one's spirit soar, don't you think? — Anton Chekhov

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs. — Kurt Vonnegut

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. — Anton Chekhov

There is no greater sorrow than to know another's secret when you cannot help them. — Anton Chekhov

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say. — Chad Harbach

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry. — Anton Chekhov

Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere, — Anton Chekhov

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

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days. — Anton Chekhov

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air. — Anton Chekhov

It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style. — Clive Sinclair

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

blind love finds ideal beauty everywhere. — Anton Chekhov

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

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

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. — Anton Chekhov

He did nothing and knew how to do nothing. He — Anton Chekhov

Though my fortune is not large, yet I am in a position to support a beloved being and children at my side. — Anton Chekhov

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. — Anton Chekhov

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. — Anton Chekhov

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' — Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. — Anton Chekhov

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. — Anton Chekhov

You will not become a saint through other people's sins. — Anton Chekhov

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

And really is there anything in the world more captivating than a beautiful young mother with a healthy baby in her arms? 'What — Anton Chekhov

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student. — Anton Chekhov

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny. — Vera Farmiga

You know I can't stand Shakespeare's plays, but yours are even worse. — Leo Tolstoy

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco. — Anton Chekhov

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. — Robert Wilson

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — Anton Chekhov

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation. — Anton Chekhov

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex. — Tom Stoppard

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend. — Anton Chekhov

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe

you devil's doll! — Anton Chekhov

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday. — Anton Chekhov

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world. — Anton Chekhov

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. — Anton Chekhov

Let's drop the philosophy! — Anton Chekhov

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom! — Anton Chekhov

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure. — Anton Chekhov

True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know. — Anton Chekhov

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone. — Anton Chekhov

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people. — Anton Chekhov

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall. — Anton Chekhov

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