Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, primarily known as MaximGorky, 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. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths, Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 March 1868
CountryRussian Federation
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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.
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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?
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
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