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… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.” — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“in a male-dominated world, Reich suggested, there was an “economic interest” in the continued role of women as “the provider of children for the… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: “We have to lose our minds and… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“An individual with genital character, according to Reich, was fully in contact with with his body, his drives, his environment- he possessed “orgastic potency,” the capacity to “surrender to the flow of energy in the orgasm without any inhibition…free of anxiety and unpleasure and unaccompanied by fantasies”; and while genital character alone would not assure enduring contentment, the individual at… — Gay Talese Copy Share
Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“While the moral force of Judeo-Christian tradition and the law have sought to purify the penis, and to restrict its seed to the sanctified institution of matrimony, the penis is not by nature a monogamous organ. It knows no moral code. It was designed by nature for waste, it craves variety, and nothing less than castration will eliminate the allure… — Gay Talese Copy Share
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
