Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities…

— Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

A woman who is loved always has success.

— Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

— Vicki Baum

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

— Vicki Baum

“The experiences people have in a large hotel do not constitute entire human destinies, full and completed. They are fragments merely, scraps,…

— Vicki Baum

To be a Jew is a destiny

— Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with…

— Vicki Baum

The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had…

— Vicki Baum

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his…

— Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will…

— Vicki Baum

patience is an integral part of talent.

— Vicki Baum

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new…

— Vicki Baum

“The real thing is always going on somewhere else. When you’re young you think it will come later. Later on you think…

— Vicki Baum

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

— Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

— Vicki Baum

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

— Vicki Baum

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell,…

— Vicki Baum