A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. - Isaac Babel
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.
- Isaac Babel
She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...' - Isaac Babel
She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'
The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fl… - Isaac Babel
The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fl…
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in … - Isaac Babel
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in …
No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place. - Isaac Babel
No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a da… - Isaac Babel
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a da…
No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time. - Isaac Babel
No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.
If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. - Isaac Babel
If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. - Isaac Babel
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
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