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David Remnick

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

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David Remnick is saying that life is full of unpredictable and contrasting events, constantly shifting from one intense experience to another. He believes that the role of storytellers is to pause and capture these moments in detail, rather than just letting the world rush by.

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