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 Baum More Quotes by Vicki Baum More Quotes From Vicki Baum There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. Vicki Baum dance happy happiness Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. Vicki Baum being-alone lonely loneliness There is a need for heroism in American life today. Vicki Baum time life america Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply. Vicki Baum comes-and-goes next Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. Vicki Baum marriage two art 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 Baum worry men night 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 Baum different mistake men Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare. Vicki Baum perfection people art A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life. Vicki Baum contact should reality cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall. Vicki Baum cat nature dirty 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 Baum writing might children Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman. Vicki Baum pity feelings 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. Vicki Baum squares cities house in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude. Vicki Baum big-cities solitude cities 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. Vicki Baum meals pay men 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 Baum filling-up loss watches 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 Baum giving-up loyalty food What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY. Vicki Baum hollywood knowing two serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning. Vicki Baum bed eye morning patience is an integral part of talent. Vicki Baum talent patience
