Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYOnly mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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