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Authors
Maxim Gorky
Russian
Novelist
About the author
Everybody, 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 Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Want
#Man
#Friend
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.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Happiness
In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Past
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Past
#Maxim
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Work
#Pleasure
#Duty
#Slavery
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Man
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Children
#Future
#Mothers
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Meaning
#Philosophy
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Children
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.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Care
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
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.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Musicians
#Abuse
#Prejudice
#Exploitation
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.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Earth
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
Maxim Gorky,
Russian
Novelist
#Words
#English
#Language