I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
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In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
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Appearing Tpo Be Sad
Writing plays appearing to be sad
for people who are humorous, Anton
prevents us all from forming our foregone
conclusions about what is good or bad.
Because they both are linked, you have to laugh
both at what’s funny and what’s sad, he found,
for crying will not help you hear the sound
that splits the sides of sadness into half.
Hilton Als reviews a production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” in The New Yorker, March 24,2008 (“Servants of Art”) , and quotes Nabokov, who observed in 1981 that Chekhov wrote “sad books for humorous people. Things for him were funny and sad at the same time, but you would not see their sadness if you did not see their fun, because both were linked up.”
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
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Man is what he believes.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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Only entropy comes easy.
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To advise is not to compel.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
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The Esplanade
Sitting on a stripped isolated bench
An immigrant watches the pious Churchgoers
In different dresses and their style of walking!
Snow flakes fall from the barren sky
Like the parentless embryos
And he thinks of his native country.
The cast iron bells of village ringing
And the deaf old priest,
Once his acquaintance with the strict Master.
He plays the role as an obedient servant to him
Who orders to sweep the entire premises
And he sniffs the Jasmine flowers
Scatter on the silent ground.
Almost forgotten the chants of Pali & Sanskrit
Miniature candles extinguished in the winds past
And that continuously whipped him by the time of cruel life!
*I humbly dedicate this poem to the finest short story writer Anton Chekhov in gratitude.[ Anton Chekhov's life was the epic novel he never wrote.By the spring of 1904 Chekhov was failing rapidly, which did not keep him from thoughts of entering the Russo-Japanese War as a doctor.Instead he let himself be persuaded to go to the German health resort of Badenweiler, near the Black Forest, for treatment.On the night of June 29 he described to his wife an idea he had for a story.A few hours later he was dead.His body was sent back to Moscow in a railroad car marked Fresh Oysters.]
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
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