Quotes from bookThe Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac is the autobiography of composer, radio, and television personality Oscar Levant. Published in 1965 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, it was Levant's second best-seller, following a quarter-century after his first book, A Smattering of Ignorance.
Oscar Levant book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965) http://books.google.com/books?&id=yWcIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22My+last+picture+for+Warners+was+Romance+on+the+High+Seas+It+was+Doris+Day%27s+first+picture+that+was+before+she+became+a+virgin%22&pg=PA192#v=onepage<br>A later paraphrase of this appeared in The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1972) by Max Wilk: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
“A psychiatrist once diagnosed my troubles as “an abdication of will.””
Oscar Levant book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
“When I used to speak of the lunatic fringe, I didn’t know I was going to be head of it.”
Oscar Levant book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
“I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it."”
Oscar Levant book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13; also quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 31.
“I have seizures of momentary sanity.”
Oscar Levant book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
“Instant unconsciousness had been my greatest passion for ten years.”
Oscar Levant book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
