"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
"When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief."
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Source: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics”
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