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" 98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. "
First
People
Say
" 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. "
Heroes
Say
Principle
" Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. "
Al
Russia
Than
" Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. "
Independent
Risk
Run
" Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. "
Fast
Mine
Time
" I actually have great hopes for the future. "
Actually
Great
Hopes
" 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. "
Moving
Achievement
Change
" I have to always remember, writing is really hard. "
Hard
Writing
Remember
" I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. "
Thinking
Bitterness
Vanity
" I'm a civilian, a citizen. "
Citizen
Civilian
" I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one. "
Job
Pretty
Consuming
" 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. "
History
Language
Washington
" I'm not the slowest writer that you know. "
Writer
You
Know
" I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate. "
Different
Think
Senate
" I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later. "
Journalism
Understand
Scholarship
" 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. "
Moments
New
Okay
" 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. "
United States
Everyone
Time
" Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving. "
Wet
Hard
Cold
" Not all political prisoners are innocents. "
Prisoners
Innocents
Political
" Reform is not a period of retreat. "
Retreat
Reform
Period
" 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. "
Language
Happy
Tough
" The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe. "
Cold
Expensive
War
" 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. "
Single
Free
Mafia
" 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. "
Moving On
Beautiful
Beauty
" To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. "
Tea
Some
Republican
" Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales. "
Rarely
Very
Spike
" You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. "
Know
Book
Year
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