Vicki Baum Quotes

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

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Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

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A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself.... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

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I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy.... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!'

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Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open your eyes the next morning.

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They clung like barnacles to the sunken keel of the style and tastes of the 'Nineties.

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The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible.

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There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

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The seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

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Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

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Luke got up and followed him on tiptoes, trying to keep his shoes from making that unpleasant noise on the linoleum which fills the corridors of all the hospitals in the world.

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People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

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Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

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In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

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The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist.... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble... that I, for one, never found them.

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I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

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Men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

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When we are young, our parents run our life, when we get older, our children do.

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To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

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'What was her name again?' asked the old lady, whose brain was like a worn-out strainer, very fine in places but with big holes in others.

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Cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

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