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Anton Chekhov Quotes

Anton Chekhov quotes about reading

Russian Playwright January 29, 1860 – July 14, 1904

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His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another. Anton Chekhov
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And... Anton Chekhov
In the days when I didn't know people were reading and judging me, I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny; now I am afraid when I write. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "They say, tell me what you've read and I'll tell you who you are."
They say, tell me what you've read and I'll tell you who you are. Anton Chekhov

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