Gay Talese

“Whatever influence Bullaro’s normally cautious character might have exerted over the passions of his penis were now nonexistent, and he unhesitatingly followed…

— Gay Talese

“The average married man, if he had the energy, could have sex with several women without diminishing the affection and desire he…

— Gay Talese

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

— Gay Talese

“In Connecticut the crime of oral sex could be punishable by a thirty-year jail term. In Ohio it was one to twenty…

— Gay Talese

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on…

— Gay Talese

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

— Gay Talese

“Many couples in the room merely watched the proceedings in wonderment, and to them the visit to Sandstone was a learning experience,…

— Gay Talese

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work

— Gay Talese

“Interestingly, the historic case of 1868 in England that first defined obscenity-known among lawyers as the Hicklin decision- evolved out of the…

— Gay Talese

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like…

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I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

— Gay Talese

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

— Gay Talese

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about

— Gay Talese

“Departing from Freud’s exclusively verbal analysis, Reich studied the body as well as the mind, and he concluded after years of clinical…

— Gay Talese

Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred…

— Gay Talese

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. gloom is their game,…

— Gay Talese

“Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even…

— Gay Talese

“While the quest for adventure that had long plagued him now tempted him to remove his clothes, an even more persuasive force…

— Gay Talese

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

— Gay Talese

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

— Gay Talese

Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was…

— Gay Talese

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want…

— Gay Talese

“In his parochial school, the nuns had advised him and his classmates that they should sleep each night on their backs with…

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