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Jimmy Breslin

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When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.


— Jimmy Breslin


#new-york-city

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.


— Jimmy Breslin


#new-york-city

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.


— Jimmy Breslin


#builds #lots #money #professional #vacant

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.


— Jimmy Breslin


#immediate #received

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.


— Jimmy Breslin


#architects #designed #hands #honorable #intentions

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


— Jimmy Breslin


#designed #football #game #keep #miners

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


#against #does #get #impatience #interest

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


— Jimmy Breslin


#number #rule #small #steal #thieves

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


— Jimmy Breslin


#columns #ever #i #kept #me

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


— Jimmy Breslin


#english #in the past #language #paintbrush #past






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Did you know about Jimmy Breslin?

The column is indicative of Breslin's style which often highlights how major events or the actions of those considered "newsworthy" affect the "common man". Awards
Breslin has received numerous accolades and awards throughout his career. Controversies
In May 1990 after fellow Newsday columnist Ji-Yeon Mary Yuh described one of his articles as sexist Breslin heatedly retorted with racial and sexual invective.

Jimmy Breslin (born October 17 1930) is an American journalist and author. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News' Sunday edition.

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