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Quote by Anton Chekhov
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. - Anto

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov

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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. – Anton Chekhov

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There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. – Anton Chekhov

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Science
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Any idiot can face a crisis – its day to day living that wears you out. – Anton Chekhov

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The author, as a rule, dearly loves every line of his work, from the first stroke down to the dotlet on the i, and certainly has a right to it. – Gustav Boehm, “A Discourse on Title Page Composition,” in The Inland Printer (Ch

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. – Gail Hamilton

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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. – A. Bronson Alcott

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I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. Theyd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and wed think: Oh, please Lord, dont make us go through that. – Paul Reiser

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