I'm not saying that French books are talented, and intelligent, and noble. They don't satisfy me either. But they're less boring than the Russian ones, and not seldom one finds in them the main element of creative work——a sense of personal freedom, which Russian authors don't have. I can't remember a single new book in which the author doesn't do his best, from the very first page, to entangle himself in all possible conventions and private deals with his conscience. One is afraid to speak of the naked body, another is bound hand and foot by psychological analysis, a third must have "a warm attitude towards humanity, " a fourth purposely wallows for whole pages in descriptions of nature, lest he be suspected of tendentiousness.. One insists on being a bourgeois in his work, another an aristocrat, etc. Contrivance, caution, keeping one's own counsel, but no freedom nor courage to write as one wishes, and therefore no creativity.- A Boring Story. Anton Chekhov
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  2. People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.
  3. No matter how you twist and turn, your ass is always in the back.
  4. I had a quack in the floor. So, I had to use ductile.
  5. I'm not saying you're weak, but you brawl like a couple of girls having a pillow fight.
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