James Murray Kempton (1917 - 1997) was a journalist who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Quotes

• One does not attend this movie; one enlists in it.
  • "Serpents on the Nile," a review of The Ten Commandments (1956)

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

• Great care has gone into the construction of the shadow which declares itself to be Richard Nixon.

• If you talk to gangsters long enough, you’ll find out they’re just as bad as respectable people.

• In baseball, the true class enemy is not the boss, but the fan.

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