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?
MAXIM GORKYAn 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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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 the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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