Vicki Baum quotes
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“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”
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“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.119, New York Review of Books
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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.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”
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“when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.”
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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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“People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.”
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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 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.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London
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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!”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”
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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.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1956). “Written on water: a novel”
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“patience is an integral part of talent.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”
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“Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.”
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“serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.”
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“cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1956). “Written on water: a novel”
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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 ...”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London
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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.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”
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“Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum, Margaret Leland Goldsmith (1931). “Results of an Accident”
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“A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.”
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“He who does not move with the times is a dead man”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1980). “Grand hotel”
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“Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”
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“Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.”
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“A woman who is loved always has success.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.117, New York Review of Books
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“There is a need for heroism in American life today.”
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“What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.”
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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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“To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.”
-- Vicki BaumSource : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London
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