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Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Attribution: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, January 14, 1887, to M.V. Kiseleva. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 2, p. 12, “Nauka” (1976).

Categories: Author, Conscience, Criticism, Literature, Playwright

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