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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

Topics: Away Beautiful Beauty Broadcaster Caravan Complicated Crazy Crisis Filmmaker Goes Job Keeps Moving Moving On Pause Place Radio Stop Strangeness Stuff Tragedy Ugly Weirdness World Writer

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Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

~David Remnick

Topics: Cold Hard Nature Unforgiving Wet

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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

~David Remnick

Topics: Al Capitalism Far Henry More Russia Than

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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.

~David Remnick

Topics: Achievement Change Deeper Degrees Enormous Enough Going Good Imaginative Information Level Life Moving Reach Sheer Somebody Story Than Two

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98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

~David Remnick

Topics: Cartoons First Get Lying Magazine Other People Read Say Who

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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.

~David Remnick

Topics: Die Different Different Kind Existence Had Just Kind Live Magazines Moments Most New New Yorker Okay Peak Very Yorker

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Reform is not a period of retreat.

~David Remnick

Topics: Period Reform Retreat

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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.

~David Remnick

Topics: Activity Bred Brutal Corruption Field Free Institution Mafia Most Russia Single Sort World-Class

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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.

~David Remnick

Topics: About Achievements Bitterness Everything Gorbachev Him His Left Mistakes Now Office Thinking Vanity

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Not all political prisoners are innocents.

~David Remnick

Topics: Innocents Political Prisoners

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: October 29th, 1958

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