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

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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
Rare
Perfection
Art
Music
People
Luckily
Bores

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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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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 woman who is loved always has success.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.
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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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He who does not move with the times is a dead man
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There is a need for heroism in American life today.
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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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in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.
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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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To be a Jew is a destiny
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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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when we are young our parents run our life when we get older, our children do.
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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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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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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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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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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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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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