"There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."
"the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents."
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Source: Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”
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