"There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."
"I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!"
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Source: Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”
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