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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin
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Jimmy Breslin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 17
Died: 2017
Died: March 19
Journalist
Jamaica
Queens
James Earle Breslin
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Mediocrity
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Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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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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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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Anything that isn't writing is easy
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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
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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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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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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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Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers
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Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
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Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
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Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word journalism to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.
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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
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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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I always react to news immediately. That's my business.
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I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.
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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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