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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

Other quotes by Anton Chekhov

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. – Anton Chekhov

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Apathy
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. – Anton Chekhov

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Medical
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. – Anton Chekhov

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God
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

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Writing

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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Writing

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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Writing

When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. РBlaise Pascal, Pens̩es, 1670

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Writing

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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. – David Riesman

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I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor. – Rachael Ray

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Hes really sort of the devil. Hes completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. Its about power with Voldemort. Its an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. – Ralph Fiennes

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Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people. – Arsene Wenger

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