Oscar Levant Quotes

Short term memory is not good.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.

for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.