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

~Gay Talese

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News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

~Gay Talese

Topics: Happened Impact Might News Well

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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

Topics: After Always Bound Considered Down Even Families Had He His Hugh Magazine Men Modeling Other Own Playboy Possess Raise Settled Still Stopped Them Volumes Women Would

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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

Topics: Alive Being Day Get He His Hope Reporter Testimony Times Tomorrows Would Wrote

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

~Gay Talese

Topics: About Am Come Could Stories Thinking Up I Am

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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

~Gay Talese

Topics: Escape Lot Me People Restaurants Wonderful

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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

Topics: About Alimony Better Court Deal Different Different Reasons Get Girl Go Got How Last Lawyer Make Many Maybe People Reasons Restaurants Settlement Some Talk Than Week

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

~Gay Talese

Topics: Colleges Example For Example Many Programs Some Teach Work Writing

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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take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer.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.

~Gay Talese

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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

Topics: About Alive Am America Character City Figures Like New New York Novel People Play Short Short Story Story Who Writing York I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 7th, 1932

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