American - Entertainer | October 17, 1930 -
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
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.
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
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The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
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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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I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
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Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
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Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
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Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
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I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
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If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.
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