Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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
-
-
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKY -
Every new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKY -
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
MAXIM GORKY -
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 -
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
MAXIM GORKY -
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.
MAXIM GORKY -
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKY -
When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
MAXIM GORKY -
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY -
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY -
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKY -
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
MAXIM GORKY -
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKY -
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKY -
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!
MAXIM GORKY