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Maxim Gorky [1868-1936] Russian

Rank: 103
Novelist, Writer

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Future, Happiness, Mom, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.		101
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.	Work	102
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.		103
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.	Happiness	104
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.		105
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.	Future, Mom	106
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.		107
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.		108
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.		109
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.		110
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.		111
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.		112
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.		113
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.		114
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?		115
In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.		116

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