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1. "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
2. "I like the serendipitous surprises of reality." ~ Lawrence Wright
3. "I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind." ~ Lawrence Wright
4. "I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife." ~ Lawrence Wright
5. "I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system." ~ Lawrence Wright
6. "I get very antsy when I'm not occupied." ~ Lawrence Wright
7. "IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not." ~ Lawrence Wright
8. "Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody." ~ Lawrence Wright
9. "Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already." ~ Lawrence Wright
10. "You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand." ~ Lawrence Wright
11. "Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow." ~ Lawrence Wright
12. "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
13. "People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful." ~ Lawrence Wright
14. "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
15. "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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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year."
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