Jimmy Breslin Quotes

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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

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For those who take their politics from a book, an easier but much less effective way of learning than mine, this same proposition has been advanced in print by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote in England in the 1600s: "The reputation of power is power." Power is an illusion.

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Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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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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The Office of President is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

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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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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

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

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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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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

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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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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.

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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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