14 quotes
But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.
Factotum (1975)
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
Factotum (1975)
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil.
Factotum (1975)
My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.
Factotum (1975)
"People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be."
Factotum (1975)
Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
Factotum (1975)
That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.
Factotum (1975)
When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
Factotum (1975)
There ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved.
Factotum (1975)
"I'm no preacher but I can tell you this-the lives that people lead are driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive."
Factotum (1975)
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.
Factotum (1975)
When I went to the Yellow Cab Company I passed the Cancer Building and I remembered that there were worse things than looking for a job you didn't want.
Factotum (1975)
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
Factotum (1975)
"Someday," I told Jan, "when they demonstrate that the world has four dimensions instead of just three, a man will be able to go for a walk and just disappear. No burial, no tears, no illusions, no heaven or hell. People will be sitting around and they'll say, 'What happened to George?' And somebody will say, 'Well, I don't know. He said he was going out for a pack of cigarettes.
Factotum (1975)