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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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When youre thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean thats faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two thats science. – Anton Chekhov

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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. – Anton Chekhov

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Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

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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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