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I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on.

— Oscar Levant Jon Winokur in The Portable Curmudgeon (1992)

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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Gene Perret in On the 8th Day — God Laughed (1995)

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

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

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005)

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

as recounted by Levant in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940)

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If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Ivan Illich Tools for Conviviality (1973)

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus Oresteia (-458)

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