When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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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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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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 higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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