Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 45, Manny
“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
“Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”
Reported in "Shirley Chisholm Kicks Off Campaign for U.S. Presidency" by Ronald E. Kisner, Jet, Vol. 41, no. 20 (Feb. 1972), p. 12.
“I have no ambitions nor desires.
To be a poet is not my ambition,
It's simply my way of being alone.”
Não tenho ambições nem desejos
Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha
É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
Alberto Caeiro (heteronym), O Guardador de Rebanhos ("The Keeper of Herds", tr. Richard Zenith) in Athena (January 1925)
“My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.”
“My ambition is to hit.400 and talk 1.000.”
As quoted in "Stupid, You Say?" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2ykxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4563%2C4702173.
“My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.”
in Correspondence de Berthe Morisot, ed. Denis Rouart; Paris (1950)
undated quotes
“My ambition is always to get better and better.”
