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" If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated. "
Lawrence Wright
Bin
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" Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society. "
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" To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it. "
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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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" Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it. "
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" Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance. "
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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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" 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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" When you're first starting on a project, you feel shy because you don't know very much, and you know that you're going to be ignorant and seem ignorant. "
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" I've always been intrigued by why people believe one thing over another. "
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" I was a very religious teenager, and I moved away from that. "
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" I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. "
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" This age of terror will end one day, but whether our society can restore the feeling of freedom that once was our birthright is hard to predict. "
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" I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. "
Lawrence Wright
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Hold
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" To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers. "
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" What I've learned is that everybody really wants to sell their story. No matter who they are, everybody feels that what they're doing is the right thing, and if they could only explain themselves to a reasonable person that understands them, then maybe they'll listen. "
Lawrence Wright
Listen
The Right Thing
Story
" I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. "
Lawrence Wright
Student
Better
Cards
" A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page. "
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" There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous. "
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Me
" The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction. "
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Writing
You
" 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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Problems
" I love apples. I actually do eat an apple a day. "
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Apple
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Apples
" If you're on a contract at 'The New Yorker,' the contract specifies the number of words you will publish in the magazine per year. I get paid by the word, like most writers. That's one reason why the Scientology article was 25,000 words long! "
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" Life gives you so many alternatives to choose from, and... you judge these as best as you can until something comes along like 9/11. And it's the central event of my lifetime, so I knew I had to write about that. "
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" A donkey is a very useful beast of burden. "
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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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" In places where money comes out of the ground, luck and a willingness to take risks are the main denominators that determine one's future, not talent or education or hard work. Money that is so easily acquired somehow comes to seem well deserved, because those who have it must be either uniquely perspicacious or divinely favored. "
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" I spent two years in Cairo, and I felt a certain urgency about trying to understand the region and the conflict here, in the modest way that a journalist might be able to try and shed some understanding and enlightenment on a region that is profoundly conflicted, and a conflict that has real consequences for Americans. "
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" From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues. "
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Beginning
Management
Organization
" You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand. "
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