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Anton Chekhov Quotes

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: russian
Birth: January 29, 1860 - July 15, 1904

Topics

World Petty Hatred Fires Hostility

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

Technology Looking Website Active

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Myself Academic Background Come

I used to have Lamborghinis, Ferraris parked up outside the house - just parked there with no one driving them! Now I'm much wiser, and I only have one car that I drive. What's the point of having three cars just parked up when you don't need them?

Car Drive Driving You House Three

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

History Time Tradition Sometimes Out

Art can only be taught by artists.

Art Artists Only Taught

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

School Poetry Us Vital Spoils Until

I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.

Family Good Father Children Time

I got heckled by a woman, and my riposte fixed upon her unfortunate hair texture, only for her to remove her wig and reveal to the room the horrors of chemotherapy.

Dominic Holland

Woman Hair Wig Room Texture Reveal

You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

Fitness Happy People Think You Need

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

Life People World Black American

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

Parent You Born Target Where Ethnic

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

Life Attitude Me Lawyer Literature

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