Quote #2

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

More from Murray Kempton

  1. 'One does not attend this movie [The Ten Commandments]; one enlists in it.'
  2. 'Great care has gone into the construction of the shadow which declares itself to be Richard Nixon.'
  3. 'If you talk to gangsters long enough, you'll find out that they're just as bad as respectable people.'
  4. 'In baseball, the true class enemy is not the boss, but the fan.'

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