Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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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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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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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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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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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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