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“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning”Anton Chekhov
“A book is a device to ignite the imagination”Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
“A good book is an event in my life”Stendhal, The Red and the Black
“We owe it to each other to tell stories”Neil Gaiman
“You cannot open a book without learning something”Confucius
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already”George Orwell, 1984
“A book is a gift you can open again and again”Garrison Keillor
“Books are the mirrors of the soul”Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
“Sleep is good, he said, And books are better”George R.R. Martin
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures”Jessamyn West
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity”G.K. Chesterton
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us”Franz Kafka
“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book”Stéphane Mallarmé
“Books are a uniquely portable magic”Stephen King, On Writing
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love”Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
“There is no friend as loyal as a book”Ernest Hemingway
“I cannot live without books”Thomas Jefferson
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library”Jorge Luis Borges

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Antosha and Levitasha – The Shared Lives and Art of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan	How Chekhov invented the modern short story	Are All Short Stories O. Henry Stories
O. Henry plays move to Well-Spring theater	Gary Shteyngart dissects one of the “most unexpected” lines in fiction and shares how it influenced his latest novel, Lake Success	Stage giants fight to save Chekhov villa
Greta Gerwig and Oscar Isaac to Star in Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” Adaptation	Ten interesting facts about Chekhov’s Melikhovo estate outside Moscow	Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss and Corey Stoll are staring in ‘The Seagull”
Secrets, lies and a child: William Boyd on the truth behind Chekhov’s marriage	Chekhov in the penal colony	Anton Checkov: Cause of death questioned
Bhopal: Hindi play based on O Henry creation staged at Bharat Bhawan	George Saunders on Chekhov’s Different Visions of Happiness	Portrait of the Past: O. Henry convalesces in Asheville
O. Henry Christmas’ offers tales of holiday spirit, humanity	Five Soviet film adaptations of O. Henry	The 40th Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships
O. Henry Museum	Anton Chekhov’s Hysterical First Book Is Published After 130 Years	Musical of O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi makes its area debut at MET
Anton Chekhov – 1890, French movie	The Gift of the Magi – a new illustrated version by Ofra Amit	Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction
Exploring the Asian Chekhov	Turkish drama Winter Sleep wins at Cannes: The Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan says the starting points for Winter Sleep were several short stories by the Anton Chekhov	Days and Nights – an independent movie inspired by Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull
Chekhov’s work continues to resonate	Ten photos and quotes to celebrate Anton Chekhov’s birthday
Chekhov and Crimea: Historical review on timeless literary	What’s the difference?: Much Ado and ‘The Cherry Orchard	O. Henry in Bollywood – adaptation to The last Leaf
Pune revives Anton Chekov’s most beloved plays	What Anton Chekhov Teaches Us About Common Core Standards	Petkov: Put Anton Chekhov on your reading list
Japan’s love affair with Chekhov	Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ has an Irish accent	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike – Lincoln Center Theater

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