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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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Jimmy Breslin
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
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Jimmy Breslin
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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Beer,
Cigarette,
Drank,
Floor,
Hooked,
Hurry,
Job,
Life,
Never,
Out,
Place,
Rest,
Said,
Saloon,
Take,
Throw,
Went,
Where,
Writing
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