Every time I look at you I ...

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
 Oscar Levant

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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
 Oscar Levant
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
 Oscar Levant
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
 Oscar Levant
When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly.
 Oscar Levant