Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKYWhen 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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