"A woman who is loved always has success."

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Source : Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.117, New York Review of Books

Vicki Baum

“Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.”
“Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.”
“Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.”
“A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.”
“What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Kid ... Comics will break your heart.”

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