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If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.

— Charles Bukowski Interview with Robert Wennersten (1974)

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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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