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Vicki Baum quote: "Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."

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

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The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight. Scott Turow
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal. Kurt Vonnegut
People rid the room of argument until they have no one left? except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument. Bono
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness. Milan Kundera
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Theodor Adorno quote: "Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you."
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My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. H. G. Wells
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The average is that which no person quite ever is. Robert Anton Wilson
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I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. Tom Hanks