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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
Maxim Gorky
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Maxim Gorky
Age: 68 †
Born: 1868
Born: March 14
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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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 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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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
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In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
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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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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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All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.
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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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There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - Swan Song is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
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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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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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