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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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Jimmy Breslin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 17
Died: 2017
Died: March 19
Journalist
Jamaica
Queens
James Earle Breslin
Missing
Worst
Start
Young
Thing
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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.
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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 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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Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
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The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover
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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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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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I always react to news immediately. That's my business.
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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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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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All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.
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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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Anything that isn't writing is easy
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Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
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The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
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I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
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Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
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