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.
MAXIM GORKYProcessing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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