Anton Chekhov Quotes

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

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• Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that.

  

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• The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Petty