Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays Quotes

“im fucking bored”
― Gay Talese, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays

“This is part of an occupational astigmatism that afflicts many obituary writers. After they have written or read an advance obituary about someone, they come to think of that person as being dead in advance.

Alden Whitman has discovered, since moving from his copyreader’s job to his present one, that in his brain have become embalmed several people who are alive, or were at last look, but whom he is constantly referring to in the past tense.

Furthermore, he admits that, after having written a fine advance obituary, his pride of authorship is such that he can barely wait for that person to drop dead so that he may see his masterpiece in print.”
― Gay Talese, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays