Top 39 Talese Quotes
#1. As the months went by, Talese began to see the masseuse as a kind of unlicensed therapist. Just as thousands of people each day paid psychiatrists money to be heard, the massage man paid money to be touched.
Gay Talese
#2. Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it.
Stephen King
#3. Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest.
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#4. 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.
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#6. 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take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer.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 will come and you will find a place to put that.
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#7. The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.
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#8. The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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 state" and the performer of household chores without pay.
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#11. For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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#12. I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
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#13. The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.
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#14. Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women who were flattered by such attention, rarely understood.
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#15. Whatever influence Bullaro's normally cautious character might have exerted over the passions of his penis were now nonexistent, and he unhesitatingly followed her and quickly undressed.
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#16. Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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#17. I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
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#20. Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places ... gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.
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#21. People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you're alive?
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#22. Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.
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#23. I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
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#27. Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.
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#28. Unlike the millions who casually masturbate 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.
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#29. In his parochial school, the nuns had advised him and his classmates that they should sleep each night on their backs with their arms crossed on their chests, hands on opposite shoulders- a presumably holy posture that, not incidentally, made masturbation impossible.
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#30. News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.
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#31. Charlotte, N.C., 273 Chastity belt, 55 Chaucer, Geoffrey,
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#32. It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.
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#33. It seemed that the penis per se, except to male homosexuals, was not a very salable commodity in the sexual marketplace of America. Few women could be aroused by the sight of an erect penis unless they were warmly disposed to the man who was attached to it.
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#34. Listen, then make up your own mind.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy.
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#38. The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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#39. One way to hold a woman is not to hold her.
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