“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
“If George is around, it will.”
In response to a question posed by Newman Levy, as to whether Gershwin's music would still be played a hundred years hence; as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974), p. 61
“Instant unconsciousness had been my greatest passion for ten years.”
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The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
“I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on.”
As quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon (1992) by Jon Winokur, p. 88.
As quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 30.
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/
“There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
As quoted in Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables (1959) by Cleveland Amory.
“He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.”
On Sigmund Romberg, as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974) by Howard Dietz, p. 61
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
“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.”
As quoted in Jewish Wit (1962) by Theodor Reik, p. 104, also in Inquisition in Eden (1965) and Whatever It Is, I’m Against It (1984) by Nat Shapiro.