David Remnick

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

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Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

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

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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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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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Quotes by David Remnick