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

— Oscar Levant

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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)

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)

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

Jon Winokur in The Portable Curmudgeon (1992)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Kenneth Boulding to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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