Man will become better only when you will make him see what he is like.
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My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones.... It's about time for writers particularly those who are genuine artists to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.
Anton Pavlovich 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 Pavlovich Chekhov
In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist is not meant to be a judge of his characters and what they say his only job is to be an impartial witness. I heard two Russians in a muddled conversation about pessimism, a conversation that solved nothing all I am bound to do is reproduce that conversation exactly as I heard it. Drawing conclusions is up to the jury, that is, the readers. My only job is to be talented, that is, to know how to distinguish important testimony from unimportant, to place my characters in the proper light and speak their language.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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