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Ilia Gurliand Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov, in Teatr i iskusstvo 1904, No 28, 11 July, p. 521. commonly known as Chekhov's dictum or Chekhov's gun.
“It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom”
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