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Anton Chekhov Quotes


A Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

Here are some famous quotes by Anton Chekhov.

Man is what he believes.

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Conciseness is the sister of talent.

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Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

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When an actor has money he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

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If you cry 'Forward ' you must make plain in what direction to go.

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Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears you out.

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A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

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Posterity will say as usual: 'In the past things were better the present is worse than the past.'

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Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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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 . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If in the first chapter you say there is a gun hanging on the wall you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.