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Jimmy Breslin

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

— Jimmy Breslin tea

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.

— Jimmy Breslin life

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

— Jimmy Breslin media

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

— Jimmy Breslin men

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

— Jimmy Breslin vision

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.

— Jimmy Breslin people

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

— Jimmy Breslin hate

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

— Jimmy Breslin art

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 people

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

— Jimmy Breslin design

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 man

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

— Jimmy Breslin art

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

— Jimmy Breslin writing

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

— Jimmy Breslin money

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

— Jimmy Breslin words

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

— Jimmy Breslin media

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

— Jimmy Breslin work

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

— Jimmy Breslin play

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 work

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 sin

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

— Jimmy Breslin pain

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

— Jimmy Breslin writing

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