"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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Source : "A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer" by Jerry Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2017.

Jimmy Breslin

#Night Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.”
“The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.”
“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
“You've got to be realistic.”
“I believe that the existence of the classical "path" can be pregnantly formulated as follows: The "path" comes into existence only when we observe it.”
“People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.”
“I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.”
“There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.”

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