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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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Vicki Baum
Age: 72 †
Born: 1888
Born: January 24
Died: 1960
Died: August 29
Harpist
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Hedwig Baum
Anything
Wells
Might
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Children
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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 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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Perfection bores me, in art, in music most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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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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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 woman who is loved always has success.
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There is a need for heroism in American life today.
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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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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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He who does not move with the times is a dead man
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cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.
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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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