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

— Charles Bukowski Factotum (1975)

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

Bukowski: Born Into This (2002)

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

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)

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