Gay Talese famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.
-- Gay Talese

#Marriage #Men #Good Man
People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that youâ€™re alive?
-- Gay Talese

#People #Funeral #Dresses
Listen, then make up your own mind.
-- Gay Talese

#Mind
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all
-- Gay Talese

#Impact #News #Might
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
-- Gay Talese

#Girl #People #Different
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.
-- Gay Talese

#Men #Self #Details
Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are assigned to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.
-- Gay Talese

#Eye #Views #People
Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly in the Yankees' corner... The efficiently triumphant Yankee maching is a great institution, but, as they say, who can fall in love with U.S. Steel?
-- Gay Talese

#Girl #Baseball #Brother
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
-- Gay Talese

#Moving #Character #Quality
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And yet to be masturbated by an appealing masseuse, to be in the physical presence of a woman with whom there was some communication and understanding, if not love, was gratifying and fun.
-- Gay Talese

#Love #Fun #Communication
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.
-- Gay Talese

#Pain #Block #Frustration
Unlike the millions who casually ***** in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.
-- Gay Talese

#Love #Lonely #Loneliness
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
-- Gay Talese

#Men #Magazines #Volume
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people
-- Gay Talese

#People #Wonderful #Restaurants
Thirteen years I took on this last book.
-- Gay Talese

#Book #Years #Lasts
The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.
-- Gay Talese

#Inspirational #Real #Team
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
-- Gay Talese

#Soccer #Groups #Littles
Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.
-- Gay Talese

#Sports #Jobs #Games
I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about
-- Gay Talese

#Thinking #Stories #Come Up
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm
-- Gay Talese

#Alive #Lines #Tomorrow
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work
-- Gay Talese

#Writing #Thinking #Turns
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel
-- Gay Talese

#New York #Writing #Character
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work
-- Gay Talese

#Writing #College #Example
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
-- Gay Talese

#Art #Writing #Journalism

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