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" If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people. "

Lawrence Wright

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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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" 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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" Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create. "

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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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" 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 get very antsy when I'm not occupied. "

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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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" The Israelis and the Palestinians don't know each other. They live right there, but they've become strangers. And it makes it much more difficult to make peace with a person you really don't know, and that's an obstacle in itself. "

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" I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind. "

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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'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings. "

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" There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. "

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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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" I deplore sexual harassment. "

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" Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11. "

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" The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction. "

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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. "

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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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" People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do. "

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

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" What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you trust my judgment, more or less, but when you're confronted yourself with humans who are right there on the screen telling you their story, you make a judgment yourself that is conclusive. "

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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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