Charles Bukowski

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• My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.

  Factotum (1975), Ch. 45, Manny

  • Motivation & Goals

• Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.

  Post Office (1971)

  • Work

• An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

  Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

  • Art
  • Intelligence

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