“ America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves. Murray Kempton
“ The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. Murray Kempton
“ To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all. Murray Kempton
“ 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 h… Murray Kempton
“ When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were mor… Murray Kempton
“ Each of us lives with a sword over his head.There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of… Murray Kempton
