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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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"Media, the plural of mediocrity." — Jimmy Breslin
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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
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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets." — Jimmy Breslin
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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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"There is no other reason for his fame." — Jimmy Breslin
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"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place." — Jimmy Breslin
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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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"Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility." — Jimmy Breslin
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"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place." — Jimmy Breslin
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"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks." — Jimmy Breslin
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"ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86." — Jimmy Breslin
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"The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public." — Jimmy Breslin
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"The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money" — Jimmy Breslin
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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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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." — Jimmy Breslin
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"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." — Jimmy Breslin
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