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Murray Kempton Quotes

1917–1997 United States

James Murray Kempton (December 16, 1917 – May 5, 1997) was an American journalist and social and political commentator who received the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

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Also known as: Kempton, Murray

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One does not attend this movie; one enlists in it.

For touching a people who want to forget ugly problems, no politician equals the one who has already forgotten them himself.

If you talk to gangsters long enough, you’ll find out they’re just as bad as respectable people.

Great care has gone into the construction of the shadow which declares itself to be Richard Nixon.

In baseball, the true class enemy is not the boss, but the fan.

The faces in New York remind me of people who had played a game and lost.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Murray Kempton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.