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title: "6 Kitchen Quotes By Charles Bukowski"
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> [... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/to-die-on-a-kitchen-floor-at-7-o-clock-in-the-morning-while-other/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49e/charles-bukowski-73_clock_to-die-on-a-kitchen-floor-at-7-o-clock-i_1129862.jpg)

> [“I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-went-to-the-kitchen-and-felt-up-the-turkey/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fa/charles-bukowski-73_food_i-went-to-the-kitchen-and-felt-up-the-tu_1198579.jpg)

> [“show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/show-me-a-man-who-lives-alone-and-has-a-perpetually-dirty-kitchen-and/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/charles-bukowski-73_clean_show-me-a-man-who-lives-alone-and-has-a_1627604.jpg)

> [I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-walk-into-the-kitchen-look-at-the-typer-down-there-on-the-floor-it/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46d/charles-bukowski-73_dirty_i-walk-into-the-kitchen-look-at-the-type_2227352.jpg)

> [Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/show-me-a-man-who-lives-alone-and-has-a-perpetually-clean-kitchen-and/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/charles-bukowski-73_detestable_show-me-a-man-who-lives-alone-and-has-a_2897960.jpg)

> [pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/pull-a-string-a-puppet-moves-each-man-must-realize-that-it-can-all/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/173/charles-bukowski-73_answers_pull-a-string-a-puppet-moves-each-man-mu_3013703.jpg)

## Other authors on Kitchen

## More by Charles Bukowski

> [“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/sometimes-when-everything-seems-at-its-worst-when-all-conspires-and/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/well-death-says-as-he-walks-by-i-m-going-to-get-you-anyhow-no-matter/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/there-is-only-one-place-to-write-and-that-is-alone-at-a-typewriter-a/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/even-the-stove-and-the-refrigerator-looked-human-i-mean-good-human/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“nerves twitching in the sheets -- to face the sunlight again, that's clearly trouble. I like the city better when the neon lights are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/nerves-twitching-in-the-sheets-to-face-the-sunlight-again-that-s/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/their-love-is-average-seeks-average-but-there-is-genius-in-their/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-climbed-the-stairway-there-was-no-elevator-and-put-the-key-in-the/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/strangers-when-you-meet-strangers-when-you-part-a-gymnasium-of-bodies/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-like-to-change-liquor-stores-frequently-because-the-clerks-got-to/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-was-like-a-turd-that-drew-flies-instead-of-like-a-flower-that/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/it-s-4-30-in-the-morning-it-s-always-4-30-in-the-morning/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-had-no-feeling-for-the-things-so-many-others-needed/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“I am sick with caring.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-am-sick-with-caring/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-went-home-each-night-dizzy-and-sick-he-was-murdering-me-with-the/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“the nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/the-nights-you-fight-best-are-when-all-the-weapons-are-pointed-at-you/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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