No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
Isaac BabelTag: writing
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.
Isaac BabelFor me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?
Isaac BabelNo iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.
Isaac BabelEven 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 day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)
Isaac BabelTag: writing
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No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.
Isaac BabelTag: writing
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 BabelTag: reality on-fiction fiction story narrative
Нет одиночества безвыходней, чем одиночество в Париже.
Isaac BabelНикакое железо не может войти в человеческое сердце так леденяще, как точка, поставленная вовремя.
Isaac BabelHer sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion.Within them was the sap of slyness and the fragrant frenzy of the Vatican.
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