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Quotes by Oscar Levant

  • There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
  • I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
  • Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
  • Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
  • I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
  • The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
  • So little time and so little to do.
  • I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
  • I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'
  • I am no more humble than my talents require.
  • Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
  • What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.