Top 36 David Remnick Quotes
#1. 100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100
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#2. Memorial, Elena said, wanted to "give a name" to the victims of the Stalin era;
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#3. She gave Stalin the letter and asked him to deliver it; for a moment, at least, one of the great murderers of the twentieth century played mailman for a young girl in love.
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#4. 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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#7. 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 to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.
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#9. I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
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#10. According to Roy Medvedev, Stalin's victims numbered forty million. Solzhenitsyn says the number is far greater - perhaps sixty million. The debate continues even now.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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 write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
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#14. The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#19. Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.
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#20. I'm not sure it is possible to describe just how hard it is to acquire a reputation as a drunk in Russia.
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#21. The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.
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#22. 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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#23. 98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
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#24. 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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#25. Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,
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#26. Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
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#27. To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.
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#28. I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
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#30. Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
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#31. The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
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#32. 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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#34. I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.
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#35. 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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#36. Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
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