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Che·khov (c̸hek′ôf, -)

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (än′tôn päv′lə vic̸h) 1860-1904; Russ. dramatist & short-story writer

Chekhov Quotes

   The Chekhov of the suburbs.

—Leonard, ElmoreJohn

The English have Shakespeare, the Russians have Chekhov, the French Molie'  re but we have the western.

—Duvall, Robert

What Chekhov saw in our failure to communicate was something positive and precious: the private silence in which we live, and which enables us to endure our own solitude.

—Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)

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