"Any experience deeply felt makes some men better……" — 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 commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival."
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Murray Kempton
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24 Quotes by Murray Kempton
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A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for…
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The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being…
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
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By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which…
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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point…
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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
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It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long,…
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