Gay Talese
Gay Talese
Gay Taleseis an American author. As a writer for The New York Times and Esquire magazine in the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth7 February 1932
CityOcean City, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
insatiable sex
He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit.
ability promote reason relevant true
He was a true showman. He had not only the talent, but he had the ability to promote that talent. That's one reason why I think he's still relevant after all these years.
marriage men good-man
It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.
mind
Listen, then make up your own mind.
love lonely loneliness
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.
eye views people
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.
impact news might
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all
love fun communication
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.
moving character quality
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.
book years lasts
Thirteen years I took on this last book.
inspirational real team
The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.
soccer groups littles
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
pain block frustration
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.
lines alive tomorrow
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