“When I was in my prime, I was an egomaniac and didn’t allow my wife to buy the best sardines–the King Oscars–which bear my name. I felt there should be only one king in my house.”

— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac

The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)

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