Top 45 Jimmy Breslin Quotes

#1. Pointing to the mutual envy of businessmen and politicians who are often out of their field in each other's area,, the author quotes the wisdom, A wise shoemaker sticks to his trade and maintains a mouthful of nails.

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#2. That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

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#3. 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.

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

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

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#6. Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

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#7. Reporting is all about legwork, getting out and finding the story. But all the stories are on the top floors, so you have to learn to climb stairs. That's what reporting is all about, climbing tenement stairs.

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

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#9. Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Media, the plural of mediocrity.

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

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#14. 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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#15. The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

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#16. Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

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#17. Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..

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#18. The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

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#19. A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

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#20. Anything that isn't writing is easy

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#21. The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

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#22. Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

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#23. The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

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#24. Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

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#25. What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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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#28. People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.

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#29. Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual.

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#30. I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

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#31. When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

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

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#33. The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

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#34. The Mets lose an awful lot?
Listen, mister. Think a little bit.
When was the last time you won anything out of life?

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

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#36. Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

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#37. 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.

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

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#39. 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.

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#40. The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

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#41. True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

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#42. 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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#43. I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

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#44. So the Mets are a bad ball club. All right, they're the worst ball club you ever saw. So what? The important thing is they are in the National League and they are familiar.

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

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