David Remnick Quotes

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• What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to…
• Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.
• The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
• A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could…
• Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
• I actually have great hopes for the future.
• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
• I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
• I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
• I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
• Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
• I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
• I'm not the slowest writer that you know.
• 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…
• Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,
• 100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100
• Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going…
• 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…
• If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must…
• 98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

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