black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Maxim Gorky

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKY

Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Bush Garden Goodness Peace Quiet
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
MAXIM GORKY

Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKY

Brother Himself Live Money Person
When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
MAXIM GORKY

Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman Yourself
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY

Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKY

Healing Soul Truth Wound
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
MAXIM GORKY

Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
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!
MAXIM GORKY

Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKY

Bad Better Book Goodness Man
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKY

Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Acceptance Disgusting Earth Himself Misery
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY

Dog Kill Master Oneself
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY

Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Maxim Gorky Quotes