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
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic
I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.
In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.
I'm in mourning for my life.
Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.
I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.