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

~Lawrence Wright

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

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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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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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I deplore sexual harassment.

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Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance.

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For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 2nd, 1947

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