Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
A Man Wants Nothing So Badly As A Gooseberry Farm.
-Anton Chekhov
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
A Man Wants Nothing So Badly As
Anton Chekhov
A Man Wants Nothing So Badly As A Gooseberry Farm.
Views: 17
Topic
Food
Men
Cooking
More From Anton Chekhov
"do You Know," Ivan Bunin Recalls Anton Chekhov Saying To Him In 1899, Near The End Of His Too-short Life, "for How Many Years I Shall Be Read? Seven." "why Seven?" Bunin Asked. "well," Chekhov Answered, "seven And A Half Then."
Life
Years
Half
While You're Playing Cards With A Regular Guy Or Having A Bite To Eat With Him, He Seems A Peaceable, Good-humoured And Not Entirely Dense Person. But Just Begin A Conversation With Him About Something Inedible, Politics Or Science, For Instance, And He Ends Up In A Deadend Or Starts In On Such An Obtuse And Base Philosophy That You Can Only Wave Your Hand And Leave.
Philosophy
Hands
Guy
Never Bring A Cannon On Stage In Act I Unless You Intend To Fire It By The Last Act.
Fire
Lasts
Stage
Write About This Man Who, Drop By Drop, Squeezes The Slave's Blood Out Of Himself Until He Wakes One Day To Find The Blood Of A Real Human Being--not A Slave's--coursing Through His Veins.
Real
Writing
Men
When One Sees One Of The Romantic Creatures Before Him He Imagines He Is Looking At Some Holy Being, So Wonderful That Its One Breath Could Dissolve Him In A Sea Of A Thousand Charms And Delights; But If One Looks Into The Soul -- It's Nothing But A Common Crocodile.
Women
Sea
Soul
Trending Author
Bob Newhart
Albert Einstein
Beverley Nichols
Erik Larson
Pitbull
Francesca Lia Block
Category
Information