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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

#drinking #first #marvelous #personality #place

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence. ↗

— William Falconer

#apprehend #blessing #care #consequence #enjoy

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

— Jimmy Breslin

#designed #football #game #keep #miners

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life. ↗

— Edie Falco

#anything #body #came #felt #handed

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

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

#brokers #clerks #colleges #friends #live

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

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Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#hearing #inattention #listen #look #magazines

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#make #might #never #perhaps #seen