About Chekhov Quotes

“Yes, I shall only be read for another seven years; and I shall live for less—perhaps for six. But don't go and tell that to the newspaper reporters.” He was wrong there: he did not live for six years….”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov

“All these of course are details, but in them is apparent much sympathy and concern, so that now, when this great artist and remarkable man is no longer among us, his letters acquire the significance of a far-away, irrevocable caress.”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov

“Your Imperial Highness,
August President! In December of last year I received a notice of the election of A. M. Pyeshkov (Maxim Gorky) as an honorary academician, and I took the first opportunity of seeing A. M. Pyeshkov, who was then in Crimea. I was the first to bring him news of his election and I was the first to congratulate him. Some time later, it was announced in the newspapers that, in view of proceedings according to Art. 1035 being instituted against Pyeshkov for his political views, his election was cancelled.”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov

“I do not think it right, myself, to mention private cases, but I know for certain that Chekhov's generosity towards students of both sexes, was immeasurably beyond what his modest means would allow.”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov

“I think that in Anton Chekhov's presence every one involuntarily felt in himself a desire to be simpler, more truthful, more one's self; I often saw how people cast off the motley finery of bookish phrases, smart words, and all the other cheap tricks”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov