Murray Kempton Quotes
We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
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People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.
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China in particular is a very important market.
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Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.
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If (a U.S.citizen) has really been out of the country for a long while and really has no particular connection there, they will probably still have to file a tax return,
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.
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I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!
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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.
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I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
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Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
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We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.
