Jimmy Breslin Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Retirement, Wall, Glasses

  Jimmy Breslin (1969). “The gang that couldn't shoot straight”, Viking Adult

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• Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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  Hands, Architecture, Intention

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

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• The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

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  Arsonists, Vacant, Counterfeit Money

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• 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

  Strong, Writing, Research

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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.

  Jimmy Breslin

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.questia.com

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hands, Politician, Gymnasiums

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• 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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  Numbers, People, Streets

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Football, Coal Miners, Games

  "A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer" by Jerry Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2017.

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• 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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  Queens, Wall, College

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.563, Open Road Media

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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.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: archives.cityandstateny.com

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• I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

  Jimmy Breslin

  News

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

  Jimmy Breslin

  Eye

  Source: archives.cityandstateny.com

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Boring, Newspapers, Sentences

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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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  Jobs, Writing, Beer

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Football, Team, School

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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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  Queens, Honor, Vaults

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Ocean, Men, Jukebox

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Past, Cheerful, Language

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• 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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  Ties, News, Television

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Writing, Boys, Long

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