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> [“The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being alone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon flight from reality. (frm "Part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/the-fates-have-a-way-of-demanding-of-a-man-that-he-suffer-his/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

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> [The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/the-fates-have-a-way-of-demanding-of-a-man-that-he-suffer-his-2/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

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## More by Murray Kempton

> [It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/it-is-a-measure-of-the-negro-s-circumstance-that-in-america-the/)

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> [A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/a-political-convention-is-just-not-a-place-where-you-come-away-with/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/it-is-not-the-least-of-a-martyr-s-scourges-to-be-canonized-by-the/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/there-is-a-raging-tiger-inside-every-man-whom-god-put-on-this-earth/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/as-an-organized-political-group-the-communists-have-done-nothing-to/)

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> [We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/we-are-a-government-of-laws-any-laws-some-government-hack-can-find-to/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/any-experience-deeply-felt-makes-some-men-better-and-some-men-worse/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/a-revolution-requires-of-its-leaders-a-record-of-unbroken/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/it-is-function-of-government-to-invent-philosophies-to-explain-the/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/every-social-war-is-a-battle-between-the-very-few-on-both-sides-who/)

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> [Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/men-very-seldom-change-try-though-we-will-beneath-the-shifts-of/)

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> [To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/to-say-that-an-idea-is-fashionable-is-to-say-i-think-that-is-has-been/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/a-critic-is-someone-who-enters-the-battlefield-after-the-war-is-over/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/america-an-economic-system-prouder-of-the-distribution-of-its/)

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> [There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/there-are-things-a-man-must-not-do-even-to-save-a-nation/)

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