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Aria Crosses Over
— Sara Shepard
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
— Murray Kempton
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
— Murray Kempton
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
— Murray Kempton
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
— Murray Kempton
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
— Murray Kempton
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
— 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
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
— Murray Kempton
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
— Murray Kempton
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
— Murray Kempton
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
— Murray Kempton
I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.
— Ryan Winfield
I had gotten so used to the taste of rain that I forgot what the sun tasted like. Bittersweet.
— Ana Patrick
Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
— Murray Kempton
There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.
— Murray Kempton