Book: Factotum. Page 1

... Ambition is rarely helpful talent. Another thing is luck. Talent is always lagging behind her.

For every Joan of Arc is always a Hitler.

Every day I see two or three people flying without regard for red lights, as if it did not exist. I'm not a preacher, but I can tell you this: a life led by the people, makes them mad and this madness manifests itself in the manner of driving.

- The Bible said "Love thy neighbor".
- It may mean - leave him alone.

Janeway Smithson twenty-five years he worked as a taxi driver and was so stupid that I considered it a cause for pride.

I couldn't bring myself to pick up a newspaper and read the announcement under "Required". I killed the idea that you need to get up and go somewhere, and speak to the person sitting at the table that I need to get a job and that I possess the necessary skills. I was scared. Actually I was scared of life and everything that has to do everyone only that he had what to eat, where to sleep and what to wear.

I don't like parties. First, I don't know how to dance. And secondly, people scare me. Especially people at parties. At such gatherings, everyone is trying to seem cheerful, witty and sexy. And even if they think they do well, actually they do bad. Moreover, the stronger the effort, the nightmarish result.

- Wine fly, ' said the old man.
- I suppose they like to drink.
Who doesn't like to drink?
- Probably drink to forget their women.

- What is something you sad. You have something happened?
- I got dumped by a woman.
- You will have others. And they too will abandon you.

And, of course, like all the old-timers, twenty-five years of experience in one place, he was clearly something wrong with his head.

I was scared. Actually I was scared of life and everything that has to do everyone only that he had what to eat, where to sleep and what to wear. So I was lying in bed and drank.

What could be worse than a situation where you mentally take a shit and then suddenly found in the stall, no toilet paper. Even the most horrible and vile bastard in the world deserves to be denied the right to wipe your ass.

If you can't be a gentleman, so do not be at least a pig.

Tell me, how to love their work and generally enjoy life, if every day you need to Wake up to an alarm clock at half past six in the morning, get out of bed, dress, force-feed yourself Breakfast, shit, piss, brush your teeth, comb your hair, shaking in a crowded public transport - in order not to be late for work, where you work hard all day, making a lot of money, not only for themselves, but for some uncle, and from you will require you to be grateful what gave you such an opportunity?