Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Quote by Charles Bukowski

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Never get out of bed before noon

Never get out of bed before noon

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul...

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul...

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other...

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other...

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important...

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important...

To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art.

To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society...

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society...

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard...

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard...

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote...

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote...

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's...

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's...

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a...

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a...

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or...

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or...

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is...

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is...

Never get out of bed before noon.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.