The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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…
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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