When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKYYou must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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