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Lawrence Wright

American Author

Born: Aug 2, 1947

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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

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To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers. Lawrence Wright

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When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun. Lawrence Wright

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

Life You Writing About Direction Point Any Lovely Thing

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. Lawrence Wright

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

Religions Part Prosper Because Create Communities Large Large Part

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

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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. Lawrence Wright

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. Lawrence Wright

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I was a very religious teenager, and I moved away from that. Lawrence Wright

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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. Lawrence Wright

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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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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. Lawrence Wright

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

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

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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. Lawrence Wright

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