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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.... (more Anton Chekhov quotes)
His first story to be published appeared in March, 1880, in the weekly magazine Dragonfly of St. Petersburg.
Always successful in Russia, international fame only came to Chekhov in the 1920s, long after his death, thanks to Constance Garnett's translations of his work into English.
His old high school was called the Taganrog Gymnasium for Boys. It is now a co-educational school called the Chekhov Gymnasium.
Chekhov was the son of a grocer in Taganrog, a Russian port on the Sea of Azov.
Chekh... (more Anton Chekhov trivia)
| Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky | |
| Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | |
| The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov and Paul Schmidt |
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