“Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”

— Oscar Levant

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

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American comedian, composer, pianist and actor 1906–1972

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