"No iron can pierce the human heart as……" — Isaac Babel
"No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time."
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13 Quotes by Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'
- There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just…
- The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the…
- For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses.…
- A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a…
- If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.
- No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at 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…
- When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success…
- A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted…
- No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
- How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life…
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