If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.