Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKYA good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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There 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.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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Every new time will give its law.
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In 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?
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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