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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Maxim Gorky
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Maxim Gorky
Age: 68 †
Born: 1868
Born: March 14
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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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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This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold it is time!
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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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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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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You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
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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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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.
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What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
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In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
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