That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
Charles BukowskiAbout author
- Author's profession: Author, Writer, Poet
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 16, 1920
- Died: March 9, 1994
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