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From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#down #go #into #narrows #our world

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

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

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

— Lawrence Wright

#constantly #i #strife #terrorism #want

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

— Lawrence Wright

#cards #feel #found #graduate #graduate student

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. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#another #belief #believe #countries #dangerous

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. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#ample #been #bridge #controversy #entire

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. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#attacked #culture #egypt #fact #feelings

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#story #tell #understand #want #you

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ↗

— Steven Wright

#fine #fine line #fishing #idiot #just