What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKYWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKYPolitics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKYOne has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKYYou must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKYOne word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYEverywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKYEverybody, 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?
MAXIM GORKYKeep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYWe 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 GORKYThe most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKYWhat I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
MAXIM GORKYJail 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 GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
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