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Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it.

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No iron can stab the heart with such force as a full stop put just at the right place.

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No steel can pierce the human heart so chillingly as a period at the right moment.

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Forget for a while that you have glasses on your nose and autumn in your heart.

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Now a man talks frankly only with his wife, at night, with the blanket over his head.

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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.

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The right to write badly was the privilege we widely used.

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Speaking of silence, we can't help talking about me, the past master of this genre.

Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel

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Born: July 1, 1894

Died: January 27, 1940 (aged 45)

Bio: Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer.

Known for:

Red Cavalry (1926)
The Odessa Tales (1931)
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
1920 Diary

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