A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
Murray KemptonMots clés humor
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 KemptonTo 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 KemptonMots clés ideas
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war and shoots the injured.
Murray KemptonThe fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being alone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon flight from reality. (frm "Part of Our Time, Some Monuments and Ruins of the Thirties," about American Communist movement.)
Murray KemptonWhen 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 more complicated people than they knew.
Murray KemptonMots clés revolution communism socialism marxism revolutionaries 1930s
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.
Murray KemptonMots clés history journey memory time-passing
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 the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality.
Mots clés ethics activism myth revolution american-history activism-inspiration
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 hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.
Murray KemptonMots clés ambition poets class freaks middle-class
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