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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love apples. I actually do eat an apple a day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at all those terrorist groups - I'm talking, going back, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, ISIS - they're all proxy armies in an Islamic civil war.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.
- Nov 07, 2020
I deplore sexual harassment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.
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- Nov 07, 2020