Murray Kempton Quotes

• 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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  Commitment, Journey, Degrees

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• A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

  Murray Kempton

  Political, Politics, Where You Come

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• A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

  Murray Kempton

  War, Critics, Wounded

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• 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 himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

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  Niños, Hombres, Tierra

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• Ningún gran canalla deja de ser interesante.

  Murray Kempton

  Sinvergüenzas

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• America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

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  America, Economic, Distribution

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• A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

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  Leader, Unbroken, Records

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.92, New York Review of Books

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• It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

  Murray Kempton

  Philosophy, Government, Demand

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• Donde vivo, en el Upper West Side, todos somos adictos en diversas fases de degradación: unos a la heroína, otros a los perros pequeños y otros al New York Times. La heroína se corta, los perros son paranoicos y el Times hace trampas escatimando en los resultados de los partidos de la Costa Oeste. No importa, cada uno sale a la calle únicamente en busca de su maldición particular.

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  Dog, New York, Cutting

  Murray Kempton (1994). “Rebellions, perversities, and main events”, Crown

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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.

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  Heart, Men, Trying

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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 has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

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  Madre, Hijos, Real

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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• 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.

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  Men, Evil, Looks

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.169, New York Review of Books

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• It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

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  Martyr, Burned, Persons

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.46, New York Review of Books

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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 an idea at all.

  Murray Kempton

  Thinking, Ideas, Fashionable

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• Toda guerra social es una batalla entre los muy pocos de ambos bandos a los que les importa y que disparan a través de una multitud de espectadores.

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  War, Fire, Battle

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.283, New York Review of Books

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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.

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  Fate, Reality, Destiny

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.318, New York Review of Books

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• There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

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  Men, Patriotism, Nations

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

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  Strong, Commitment, Lasting Love

  "Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties".

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• Las caras en New York me recuerdan a gente que jugó una partida y perdió.

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  New York, Games, People

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

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  Gentleman, Cameras, Oneself

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

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  Names, Political, Enemy

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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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, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

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  Winning, America, Long

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.246, New York Review of Books

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• A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

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  Beats, Neighborhood

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

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  Sin, Communism, Communist

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.33, New York Review of Books

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• 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.

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  Sacrifice, Reality, World

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.16, New York Review of Books

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