To advise is not to compel. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice. Anton Chekhov welcome justice years If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall. Anton Chekhov wall writing long Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. Anton Chekhov example want writing Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. Anton Chekhov hurricanes wave form 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 simple writing men In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why. Anton Chekhov too-much enough stories I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing. Anton Chekhov wisdom philosophy night I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious. Anton Chekhov cease curious people You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him. Anton Chekhov taken men thinking If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. Anton Chekhov wall gun art That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be. Anton Chekhov can-not Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable. Anton Chekhov unimaginable so-sad feels In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle. Anton Chekhov struggle men country 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. Anton Chekhov honesty justice giving Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting. Anton Chekhov achieve goal mean An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket. Anton Chekhov wall pockets four 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 Chekhov eye gold work Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic. Anton Chekhov development pride self One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. Anton Chekhov failure mistake success Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is. Anton Chekhov better-place money world
