Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has."
Chekhov quotes
Chekhov
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Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer."
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts."
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