Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKYTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKYThere is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
MAXIM GORKYOur salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYGod is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
MAXIM GORKYYou must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKYThe good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
MAXIM GORKYPolitics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYIn war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
MAXIM GORKYRemembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYIn the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKYEverything which is good in me should be credited to books.
MAXIM GORKYOne word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYEverywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKY