More from Oscar Levant
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
I once said cynically of a politician, ‘He’ll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.’
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.
On a friend’s elegy for Gershwin; recounted in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
