“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
Tales of ordinary madness (1967-83)
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American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
“Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.”
“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”
Variant: Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 535.
“Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.”
Source: As quoted in "One Hard Way to Make a Living" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/05/04/one-hard-way-to-make-a-living by Roger Angell, in The New Yorker (May 4, 1981), p. 96; reprinted in Late Innings (1982) by Roger Angell, p. 358
“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard”
Source: Last Chance Saloon