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Odessa Stories QUOTES

Odessa Stories QUOTES

1 " No one responds to the newness of new things like children. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

2 " I imagined myself in the Jewish Self-Defence League, "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

3 " Yes, sir,” answered the boatswain, a pillar of red meat overgrown with red hair. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

4 " ISAAC BABEL was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

5 " He was murdered in Stalin’s purges in 1940, at the age of 45. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

6 " The events in this story take place during the devastating Ukrainian famine of 1921–23, when more than a million people died of starvation and disease. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

7 " hakol havel (Hebrew: “Vanity of vanities… All is vanity”): Ecclesiastes 12:8. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

8 " Langeron is a popular Odessan beach, named after Alexandre-Louis Andrault de Langeron (1763–1831), who served as mayor of Odessa from 1816 to 1820. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

9 " Bolshoy Fontan (“Big Fountain”) is one of the largest and most popular coastal resort districts in Odessa. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

10 " People would ask him what a Gobelin was, why the Jacobins had betrayed Robespierre, how rayon was manufactured, what made a section caesarean. Grandfather had all the answers. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

11 " Father would have reconciled himself to poverty, but he couldn’t do without glory. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

12 " Life is rubbish,” he muttered. “The world’s a bordello. People are swindlers… "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

13 " Youth isn’t the problem—it’ll pass with the years… "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

14 " I watched the hoops of other people’s happiness roll past me. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

15 " Shuffling her manly feet, shaking her head, she listed off—at the top of her voice, for the whole street to hear—the names of women who were happy with their husbands. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

16 " ODESSA IS A NASTY PLACE. Everybody knows that. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

17 " philoprogenitive because loving your kids is just the right thing to do. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

18 " The Odessan is the polar opposite of the Petrogradian. As a rule, Odessans make a killing in Petrograd. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

19 " Cocaine did him in, or morphine—did him in, they say, after he fell from an aeroplane somewhere in the marshes around Novgorod. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories

20 " While some distance from the wide sea, smoke rises from factories and Karl Marx does his usual work. "

― Isaac Babel , Odessa Stories