Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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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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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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