"For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch."

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Source : Anton Chekhov (2008). “How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work”, p.24, Da Capo Press

Anton Chekhov

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“For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.”
“This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.”
“No matter what you set out to do and how you set out to do it, you ultimately have to be who you are, and who you are as that character. So, I paid as much homage as I could to what Michael Clarke did, and had to rely on my own gifts to guide me through it.”

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“I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”
“By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.”
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.”
“I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.”
“Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.”

Source : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2015). “The Slogan”, p.24, Vintage

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