I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view I change it every month and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.
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Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their ploughing of the soil. The muscles of the horse are as taut as fiddle-strings, and suddenly a horse-fly alights on its croup, buzzing and stinging. The horse's skin quivers, it waves its tail. What is the fly buzzing about It probably doesn't know itself. It simply has a restless nature and wants to make itself felt 'I'm alive, too, you know' it seems to say. 'Look, I know how to buzz, there's nothing I can't buzz about' I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone 'My work is literature.'
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To a chemist there is nothing impure on earth. The writer should be just as objective as the chemist he should liberate himself from everyday subjectivity and acknowledge that manure piles play a highly respectable role in the landscape and that evil passions are every bit as much a part of life as good ones.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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