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“To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face.”
— Anton Chekhov, Russian physician, dramatist and author (1860-1904), cited in Lionel Kelly, Anton Checkhov and Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Strategies of Reading, JSTOR: The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 26 (1996), pp. 218-231.
