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Murray Kempton has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to…
• The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems…
• It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
• A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
• A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
• Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection…
• By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed…
• To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it…
• A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
• No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
• The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
• The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

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