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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. Lawrence Wright

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The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, rose out of the the chaos, throwing the region into turmoil that hasn't been equaled since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Lawrence Wright

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Oftentimes, when I was reporting on conflict somewhere in the world or prison or wherever I might be, I'd be struck by the fact that religious beliefs were sometimes transformative, sometimes a motivation for violence. Lawrence Wright

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I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Lawrence Wright

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A donkey is a very useful beast of burden. Lawrence Wright

Burden Beast Very Donkey Useful

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality. Lawrence Wright

Reality Like Surprises

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already. Lawrence Wright

Religion Most America

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied. Lawrence Wright

Occupied Very Get Antsy

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

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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

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There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I'd put Dexter Filkins. He's an extraordinary man in terms of his nerve and ability to get into dangerous situations and tell the story cogently. He's bringing back real human stories. I admire that. Lawrence Wright

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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! Lawrence Wright

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. Lawrence Wright

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

Islam Inevitable Past Nothing About West In The Past

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

Men Society Our Obscure Most Contempt Strata

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