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• Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

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• To some extent, the mainstream’s absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

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• Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

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• I’m a civilian, a citizen.

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• I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

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• You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

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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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• 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.

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• The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

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• Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

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• Reform is not a period of retreat.

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• Not all political prisoners are innocents.

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• My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis – a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis – that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

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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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• 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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• I’m not the slowest writer that you know.

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• I’m interested in Russian language, culture, history… and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

   

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• I’m a journalist – I’m not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one – a joyfully consuming one.

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• I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

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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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David Remnick (27)

Birth:	29th October, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Journalist, Writer

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David Remnick is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age in 2000.

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