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.
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting. - Murray Kempton
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
- Murray Kempton
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded. - Murray Kempton
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside … - Murray Kempton
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside …
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. - Murray Kempton
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves. - Murray Kempton
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it. - Murray Kempton
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York… - Murray Kempton
We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York…
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. - Murray Kempton
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it. - Murray Kempton
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.
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