Murray Kempton quotes

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

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

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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

Murray Kempton

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

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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

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

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In baseball, the true class enemy is not the boss, but the fan.

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Great care has gone into the construction of the shadow which declares itself to be Richard Nixon.

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If you talk to gangsters long enough, you'll find out they're just as bad as respectable people.

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One does not attend this movie; one enlists in it.

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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up. (Murray Kempton)

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

Murray Kempton

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Occupation: American Journalist
Born: December 16, 1917
Died: May 5, 1997
Quotes count: 12
Wikipedia: Murray Kempton

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