“Invejo as pessoas que bebem. Pelo menos têm alguma coisa em que botar a culpa.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 327, de Paulo Buchsbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas
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“Há uma fina linha entre genialidade e loucura. Eu apaguei essa linha.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 40, de Paulo Buchsbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas
“A hipocondria é a única doença que eu não tenho.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 336, de Paulo Buchsbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas
“O casamento é o triunfo do hábito sobre o ódio.”
marriage is a triumph of habit over hate
The memoirs of an amnesiac - página 280, Oscar Levant - G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965 - 320 páginas
Oscar Levant: Frases em inglês
“It certainly will be if you are still around.”
In response to Gershwin's query, "I wonder if my music will be played a hundred years from now"; as quoted in "George the Ingenuous" by Alexander Woolcott, in Cosmopolitan (November 1933); reprinted in Ch. IV: "'...A Young Colossus...'" https://books.google.com/books?id=ATcjgQTx0uIC&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false from Gershwin Remembered (1992) by Edward Jablonski, pp. 44-45
If George is around, it will. (This version was recounted by Howard Dietz in Dancing in the Dark (1974), p. 61, in response to a virtually identical query—i.e. as to whether Gershwin's music would still be played in 100 years—posed by Newman Levy.)
“I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.”
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
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The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965) http://books.google.com/books?&id=yWcIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22My+last+picture+for+Warners+was+Romance+on+the+High+Seas+It+was+Doris+Day%27s+first+picture+that+was+before+she+became+a+virgin%22&pg=PA192#v=onepage
A later paraphrase of this appeared in The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1972) by Max Wilk: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
“A psychiatrist once diagnosed my troubles as “an abdication of will.””
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The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
On conductor George Enescu, in "Music in Aspic," Harper's Magazine (October 1939) and A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in "Lightning Wit Plays On American Musical Scene; Oscar Levant Answers Unspoken Request for 'Information, Please' With Uncensored Comments on Exalted Persons" by Ray C. B. Brown, in The Washington Post (January 14, 1940), p. E4
“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
“Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.”
On why his first marriage ended in divorce, in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in "Oscar Levant, A Musical Know-It-All, Writes Book About Music And Himself," https://books.google.com/books?id=rD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=incompatibility+%22i+think+she+hated+me%22&source=bl&ots=jaka7saxHY&sig=u4HIXFS2YCrP6tV1FRwspSLWO18&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMzIPMzdjRAhVCOyYKHQ_ECrYQ6AEIHzAD#v=onepage&q=incompatibility%20%22i%20think%20she%20hated%20me%22&f=false Life (February 5, 1940), p. 55
“Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.”
On President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 83.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
As quoted in On the 8th Day — God Laughed (1995) by Gene Perret, p. 95.
“Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”
Oscar Levant, as recounted by Levant in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); quoted in "Books and Things" by Lewis Gannett, in The New York Herald Tribune (January 13, 1940), p. 11
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 322.
“I am no more humble than my talents require.”
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
Describing himself, in lines he contributed to An American In Paris (1951), although officially credited to Alan Jay Lerner, as told in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965); also quoted in The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects (1978) by Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle, p. 485.
Fonte: In "Music in Aspic," Harper's Magazine (October 1939), an abbreviated chapter from Levant's soon-to-be-published A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); reproduced in Gentlemen, Scholars, and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22Oscar+Levant%22+intitle:Gentlemen+intitle:scholars+intitle:and+intitle:scoundrels&num=10 (1959), edited by Harry Knowles, p. 246
“An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.”
As quoted in Coronet Magazine (September 1968).
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/
“It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.”
Critiquing a musical tribute composed shortly after Gershwin's death (July 11, 1937) by an unnamed mutual friend; as recounted by Levant in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965); and quoted in "On San Diego: You Can Bet On It" https://books.google.com/books?id=DAMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA2-PA272&dq=%22Oscar+Levant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinnrf4gNnRAhVHwiYKHWsVBrI4FBDoAQg3MAg#v=onepage&q=%22Oscar%20Levant%22&f=false by Tom Blair, in San Diego Magazine (September 2007), p. 272
“When I used to speak of the lunatic fringe, I didn’t know I was going to be head of it.”
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“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”
As quoted in Time (28 August 1972).
“I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it."”
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The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13; also quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 31.
“Ballet is the fairies' baseball.”
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/ by Burt Prelutsky, in The Los Angeles Times (January 26, 1969), p. 468
“Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.”
Quip about Monroe's conversion to Judaism, on The Oscar Levant Show, as quoted in They Knew Marilyn Monroe: Famous Persons in the Life of the Hollywood Icon (2012) by Les Harding
“I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.”
As quoted in Time magazine (5 May 1958).
“I have seizures of momentary sanity.”
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