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.
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You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold.... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer.... He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.
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'Do you know,' Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, 'for how many years I shall be read Seven.' 'Why seven' Bunin asked. 'Well,' Chekhov answered, 'seven and a half then.'
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
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