"You know what writers say about their long……" — David Remnick
"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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34 Quotes by David Remnick
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What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle…
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Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population…
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The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and…
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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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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
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I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
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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…
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Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
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I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a…
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More Another Year Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
— Dorothy Parker
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept…
— Margaret Mead
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[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.
— Hedi Slimane
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There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress...…
— Mark Twain
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The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care,…
— Arch Ward
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give
— William Arthur Ward
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Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than…
— George Brett
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If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's…
— Mitchell Burgess
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Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic…
— Charles Bukowski
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And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you…
— Penelope Lively
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