“John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man—always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.”

—  John O'Hara

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

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