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Murray Kempton

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A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.


— Murray Kempton


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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.


— Murray Kempton


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A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.


— Murray Kempton


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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.


— Murray Kempton


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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.


— Murray Kempton


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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.


— Murray Kempton


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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.


— Murray Kempton


#game #lost #me #new #new york

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.


— Murray Kempton


#been #fashionable #hardly #i #i think

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.


— Murray Kempton


#down #find #government #hack #laws

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.


— Murray Kempton


#great #scoundrel #uninteresting






About Murray Kempton






Did you know about Murray Kempton?

He also wrote for the NYC-based World-Telegram and Sun and a short-lived successor the World Journal Tribune a merger between the Telegram the New York Herald-Tribune and the New York Journal American. He was a great artist and a great friend. (1973); Repr.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1985 and won the 1974 U. ). National Book Award in category Contemporary Affairs for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur et al.

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