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.

Murray Kempton

• Particular
• Pursuit
• Heroin
• Paranoid
• Coast

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• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Religion
  • Temper
  • Pursuit

• I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Particular
  • Associate
  • Ramp

• 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.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reason

• There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Pursuit

• 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.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Real
  • Guy
  • Playing

• I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Perfection
  • Pursuit
  • Pursuit Of Perfection

• 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...

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Children
  • Play
  • Wind

• People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Different
  • Drunk

• China in particular is a very important market.

  

  Brian Perkins
  • Market
  • China
  • Particular

• Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Thing
  • Romance
  • Particular

• 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,

  

  John Whiting
  • Country
  • Connection
  • Tax

• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

  

  Aristotle
  • History
  • Poetry
  • Particular

• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Way
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Man
  • Know

• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

  

  William James
  • Feels
  • Alive
  • Particular

• The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Moral
  • Names
  • Particular

• No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

  

  William Blum
  • Government
  • Imagine
  • Conspiracy

• 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!

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Cocaine
  • Heroin
  • Paying

• In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Color
  • Company
  • Admire

• Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

  

  Alice Neel
  • Humanity
  • Interest
  • Analyzing

• I'm a wear-my-heart-on-my-sleeve, fall in love-at-first-sight and go with it sort of girl. It's all about having fun with someone and learning how to communicate with someone, in a way that you enjoy.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Enjoy
  • Communicate
  • Fall In Love

• 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.

  

  Murray Kempton
  • Particular
  • Pursuit
  • Heroin