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. View quote
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The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. View quote
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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. View quote
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. View quote
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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. View quote
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. View quote
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When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. View quote
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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility. View quote
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. View quote
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Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? View quote
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Jimmy Breslin

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Occupation: American Entertainer
Born: October 17, 1928
Died: March 19, 2017
Quotes count: 20