- Listen, look what they write in these newspapers! What beards! – So listen or watch? – So listen! “Leonid Utesov said that everyone would like to be born in Odessa, but not everyone succeeded. Tatyana Solomatina was lucky - she managed to be born in Odessa. And as another great Odessa resident, Isaac Babel, said (if you believe also a difficult person - Konstantin Paustovsky), we will have our own Maupassants in Odessa...” - So what? Some were lucky to be born, others were lucky to become. You were lucky to be born and become. You are lucky to have the full right to write about Odessa. It would be un-Odessa to completely miss out on luck after all that you have already been lucky with.