Dangling in the Tournefortia Quotes

“meeting is more exciting than parting but parting is important if you want to stay alive in a certain way.”
― Charles Bukowski, Dangling in the Tournefortia: Honest American Poems—Raw, Witty Struggles with Women, Gambling, and Booze

“couldn’t understand what was wrong with her or why she did it why she needed whiskey. there was nothing in my life as ugly as she was. now I have been drunk for 40 years and I hear all the voices of those I have known as one voice: “you just aren’t yourself when you get drunk, you are one of the meanest drunks I have ever seen, you are disgusting…” well, I don’t ask them to hang around and they don’t.”
― Charles Bukowski, Dangling in the Tournefortia: Honest American Poems—Raw, Witty Struggles with Women, Gambling, and Booze