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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.

— Charles Bukowski Factotum (1975)

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I've never met another man I'd rather be.

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But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.

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Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

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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.

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My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.

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