Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKYTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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.
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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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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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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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