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"People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be."

— 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)

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)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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