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
Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.
You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.
Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.
In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
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.
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!