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

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
Imagination
Hangover
Idea
Survives
Ideas
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Alcohol
Brilliant
Drinking
Unless
Trust

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