Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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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.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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.
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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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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Every new time will give its law.
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