Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKYIn the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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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Keep 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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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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