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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.

— Gay Talese Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (1966)

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Sometimes it's good to be an outsider, especially as a journalist.

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

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I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Sinatra brings out the best and worst in people.

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

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