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" Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms. "

Lawrence Wright

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" Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already. "

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" Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism. "

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" I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife. "

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" I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. "

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" I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years. "

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" Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st. "

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" IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not. "

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" If you get into Scientology, you will go to auditing. It's like therapy except that there is an E-meter between you and your auditor. That's a device that actually measures your galvanic skin responses. It's two metal cans that you hold. They used to be Campbell's Soup cans with the label scraped off. "

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" When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the countryside that the money train is pulling into the station. Hop on board! "

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" Certainly, the two things Scientology has on its side are money and lawyers, but those qualities won't save it if it can't find a way to bring new members into the fold. "

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" If you look at all those terrorist groups - I'm talking, going back, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, ISIS - they're all proxy armies in an Islamic civil war. "

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" I've always worried that one day women would figure out how to get along without us and they would be able to reproduce unilaterally, like sponges. "

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" It's their belief, their own will, that holds people in Scientology, even oftentimes when they have been abused. "

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" Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it. "

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" I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion. "

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" The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo. "

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" When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. "

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" The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life. "

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" I was in Austin on 9/11, and there were no flights, so I couldn't get to New York to cover the story, so I had to find more creative ways. "

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" People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful. "

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" The U.S. is such an unusual place in the world because you can believe anything you want. "

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" Dallas was not a caring city, but it was efficient. "

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" When I was working on the al-Zawahiri piece, a large part of it published in 'The New Yorker' in 2002, I had spoken to a lot of Zawahiri's friends, people who had been in prison with him, people that had been in al-Jihad with him. And quite to my surprise, they liked that article a lot. "

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" Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society. "

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" I like the serendipitous surprises of reality. "

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" Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation. "

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" For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness. "

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