Vicki Baum
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.Collection: Success
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.Collection: Marriage
To be a Jew is a destiny.
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
A woman who is loved always has success.
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.Collection: Happiness
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.Collection: Next
There is a need for heroism in American life today.Collection: Life
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.Collection: Art
A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Squares
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.Collection: Mistake
patience is an integral part of talent.Collection: Patience
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.Collection: Tired
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.Collection: Cities
What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Loss
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.Collection: Men
People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.Collection: People
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.Collection: Children
cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.Collection: Nature
To be a Jew is a destinyCollection: Destiny
serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.Collection: Morning
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!Collection: New York
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.Collection: Loyalty
when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.Collection: Running