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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/a-well-thought-out-story-doesn-t-need-to-resemble-real-life-life/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

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## More by 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/a-well-thought-out-story-doesn-t-need-to-resemble-real-life-life/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [“If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/if-the-world-could-write-itself-it-would-write-like-tolstoy/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/no-iron-can-stab-the-heart-with-such-force-as-a-period-put-just-at/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [“We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that let in the stars, warming one another, our legs intermingled. I dreamed: and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/we-slept-all-six-of-us-beneath-a-wooden-roof-that-let-in-the-stars/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/for-me-the-whole-world-is-like-a-gigantic-theater-in-which-i-am-the/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/there-is-no-iron-that-can-enter-the-human-heart-with-such-stupefying/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [“No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/no-iron-spike-can-pierce-a-human-heart-as-icily-as-a-period-in-the/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [“Do you remember Zhitomir, Vasily? Do you remember the Teterev, Vasily, and that evening when the Sabbath, the young Sabbath tripped stealthily along the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/do-you-remember-zhitomir-vasily-do-you-remember-the-teterev-vasily/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/she-would-lift-her-peignoir-above-her-knees-and-say-to-her-husband/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/no-iron-can-pierce-the-human-heart-as-chillingly-as-a-full-stop/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/the-orange-sky-is-rolling-across-the-sky-like-a-severed-head-gentle/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/when-a-phrase-is-born-it-is-both-good-and-bad-at-the-same-time-the/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/a-phrase-is-born-into-the-world-both-good-and-bad-at-the-same-time/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/even-at-the-time-twenty-years-old-i-said-to-myself-better-to-go/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

> [How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-babel/how-late-i-learned-the-essential-things-in-life-in-my-childhood/)

[Isaac Babel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-babel/)

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