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Demeaning Quote by Vicki Baum

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

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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…

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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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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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A woman who is loved always has success.

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

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There is a need for heroism in American life today.

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

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To be a Jew is a destiny

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

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