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All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.
-Jimmy Breslin
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Authors & Writing
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
-Jimmy Breslin, "Times (London)", May 9, 1990
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Drinking
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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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Football
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
-Jimmy Breslin
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Media
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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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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
-Jimmy Breslin
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Politics
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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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Presidency
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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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Books by and about Jimmy Breslin
