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Quotes from Frank Sinatra Has a Cold — Gay Talese

born 1932 United States

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He never knows whether they want him for what he can do for them now — or will do for them later.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

Sinatra brings out the best and worst in people.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

One way to hold a woman is not to hold her.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

He has everything, he cannot sleep, he gives nice gifts, he is not happy, but he would not trade, even for happiness, what he is....

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel — only worse.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

It no longer matters what song he is singing, or who wrote the words — they are all his words, his sentiments, they are chapters from the lyrical novel of his life.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

He is a wholly unpredictable man of many moods and great dimension, a man who responds instantaneously to instinct — suddenly, dramatically, wildly he responds, and nobody can predict what will follow.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

Words that warmed women, wooed and won them, snipped the final thread of inhibition and gratified the male egos of ungrateful lovers; [...] for which they were eternally in his debt, for which they may eternally hate him.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gay Talese (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.