Isaac Babel Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: July 13, 1894 - January 27, 1940
Birthday: July 13
Death: January 27
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 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)
topic: Fighting, Years, Office, Office Desk, Fighting For Love
