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" War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale! "

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" It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel. "

Graydon Carter

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Race

Assumptions

" Let's face it, who among us wouldn't take a pill or potion that would make us better at our job? Goodness knows, we abuse substances for just about everything in our personal lives; why not in our professional lives as well? "

Graydon Carter

Better

Why

" Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. "

" I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut. "

" Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives. "

" Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over. "

" New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most. "

" Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. "

" Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. "

Graydon Carter

Mine

Made

" Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. "

" You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. "

" Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember. "

" My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences. "

" After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. "

" I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person. "

" The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate. "

" The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind. "

Graydon Carter

Ego

Mind

" History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. "

" I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City. "

" There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing. "

" The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book. "

Graydon Carter

Help

Credit

" 'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern. "

" In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much harder to prove, but the damages are enormous. "

" I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you. "

" Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult. "

" Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving. "

" Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time. "

" Life is all about seating and lighting. "

" It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline. "

" I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank. "