Jimmy Breslin quotes

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. (Jimmy Breslin)
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
Jimmy Breslin
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
Jimmy Breslin
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
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When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.
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I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
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Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
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The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. (Jimmy Breslin)
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
Jimmy Breslin
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.
Jimmy Breslin
Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
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Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
Jimmy Breslin
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
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