Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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What 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.
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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.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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