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Vicki Baum Biography

Hedwig (Vicki) Baum (Hebrew: ויקי באום‎; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as Grand Hotel), one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 broadway musical.

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patience is an integral part of talent.

Integral, Part, Patience, Talent

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Comes And Goes, Courage, Hold, Next, Supply

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

Art, Bores, Music, People, Perfection

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Close, Contact, Life, Profession, Reality, Should

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Children, Older, Parent, Running, Young

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.

Men, Night, Prize, Stubborn, World, Worry

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.

Cities, City, Hall, House, Squares, Word

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

Children, Living, Might, Profession, Writing

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Art, Beings, Demands, Human, Marriage, Two

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Big, Big Cities, Cities, Nobody, Solitude

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

Hollywood, Knowing, Swell, Two, Words

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

Bed, Difficulties, Eye, Morning, Open

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

America, American, Life, Time, Today

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

Hunger, Know, People, Speak

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.

Hours, Infidelity, Secret, Small, Tired

To be a Jew is a destiny

December, Destiny, Jew

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.

Fast, Food, Giving, Giving Up, Loyalty

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.

Different, Men, Mistake, Same

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Being Alone, Loneliness, Lonely, North, Pole