When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as — Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
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When 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 Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
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