You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKYWhat 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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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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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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