American - Journalist | October 29, 1958 -
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
David Remnick
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Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.
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There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
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Reform is not a period of retreat.
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98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
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If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.
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Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.
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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
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Not all political prisoners are innocents.
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Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
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I actually have great hopes for the future.
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