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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
MAXIM GORKY

Bush Garden Goodness Peace Quiet
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKY

Healing Soul Truth Wound
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKY

Devastation Evidence Man Root
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
MAXIM GORKY

Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
God 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 GORKY

Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKY

Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
MAXIM GORKY

Act Hungry Satisfaction
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY

Dog Kill Master Oneself
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKY

Contemporary Drink Writing
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKY

Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKY

Human Rough Soul
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKY

Charity Goodness Humanity Kindness Sorry Wrong
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Children Way Writing
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKY

Angry One Liner Quick
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKY

Easy Oneself Quick Stupidity

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