Anton Chekhov Quotes
It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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'Shall I look too?' said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.
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The film was a triumph everywhere. In all the newspapers. Amos Oz wrote five articles about the film. It was unanimous. I don't know how many interviews they made. They made pictures, they made profiles of me. They understood perfectly that there was 'before Shoah' and 'after Shoah'.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.
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I'm a clean liver; I'm no thief. Kids go through phases of nicking stuff. I've nicked stuff - most people have - but I haven't nicked anything of significance.
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So the universe will continue to expand forever, and the galaxies will get farther and farther apart, and things will just die. That’s the way it is. It doesn't matter whether I feel lonely about it or not.
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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
