Gorky, Maxim(also Maxim Gorki; pseudonym of Alexei Peshkov)

Russian realist author

wrote play "The Lower Depths" 1902, novel "Mother" 1907, autobiographical trilogy "Childhood", "In the World", "My Universities" 1913-1923

• "In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere."
• "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."
• "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?"
• "When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."
• "A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."