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He who does not move with the times is a dead man

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Vicki Baum
Age: 72 †
Born: 1888
Born: January 24
Died: 1960
Died: August 29
Harpist
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Hedwig Baum
Men
Move
Dead
Times
Moving
Doe

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