The Plain-Spoken Truths of Jimmy Breslin

The tributes to famed Newsday, New York Daily News and New York Post city columnist Jimmy Breslin are pouring in following his death Sunday. Here are just a few of the parsed highlights, in the form of quotes from the man himself.

1) “Like waking up every night in the middle of a train wreck.”

Breslin’s answer when asked, “What’s it like to have twins?,” by the mother of lifelong friend and current Buffalo News reporter Lou Michel.

2)’Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.’

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