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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Reform is not a period of retreat.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all political prisoners are innocents.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually have great hopes for the future.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the slowest writer that you know.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.
- Civilian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a civilian, a citizen.
- Rarely
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020