Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth29 January 1860
CityTaganrog, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Love is a scandal of the personal sort.
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll beproving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.
The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive" types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.
Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.