Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKYMany contemporary authors drink more than they write.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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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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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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