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
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
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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.
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
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.
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt
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?
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.