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Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
— William Peter Blatty
Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?
— William Peter Blatty
The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes
— William Peter Blatty
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home ... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism ...
— William Peter Blatty
What book had this girl read that had enabled her unconscious mind to simulate
— William Peter Blatty
Something unspeakable left the room.
— William Peter Blatty
Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.
— William Peter Blatty
One death is the parent of a thousand lives
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The child was slender as fleeting hope.
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This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.
— William Peter Blatty
Keep away. The sow is mine.
— William Peter Blatty
active catatonics. Among
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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
— William Peter Blatty
You're a very strange man," said Amfortas.
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Merrin began buttoning up the cassock. "Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon." The demon!
— William Peter Blatty
The child was slender as a fleeting hope.
— William Peter Blatty
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness ... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
— William Peter Blatty
He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen.
— William Peter Blatty
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
— William Peter Blatty
Never was he conscious that his thoughts were prayers; only that the prayers were never answered.
— William Peter Blatty
It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.
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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
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He drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.
— William Peter Blatty
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
— William Peter Blatty
God was alien and cruel,
— William Peter Blatty
Mom, my bed was shaking.
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He could not bear to search for Christ again in stench and hollow eyes; for the Christ of pus and bleeding excrement, the Christ who could not be. In
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drunk right now, Amfortas suspected, or high on amphetamine,
— William Peter Blatty
This making you nauseous a little?
— William Peter Blatty
WHAT WE GIVE TO THE POOR IS WHAT WE TAKE WITH US WHEN WE DIE.
— William Peter Blatty
The meantime, I don't know who you are, but you
— William Peter Blatty
Chris made a telephone call to her doctor in Los Angeles to ask him for a referral to a local psychiatrist for Regan.
— William Peter Blatty
We have every indication that he died of fright.
— William Peter Blatty
The shaven head and the man in white pants and the black woolen
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She advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cunt.
— William Peter Blatty
I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
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Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
— William Peter Blatty
There, you see? I didn't curse. Don't you agree that I handled the situation demurely?
— William Peter Blatty
I think the dead should shut up unless there's something to say
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But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?
— William Peter Blatty
Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.
— William Peter Blatty
I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
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The love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.
— William Peter Blatty
Good writing is rhythm.
— William Peter Blatty
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
— William Peter Blatty
Yes, I think so. A sign of the zodiac. I think Gemini.
— William Peter Blatty
Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us
— William Peter Blatty
I'm not saying I'm against evolution. It's okay. Here's the story on reptiles, however. Think this over. They come up on
— William Peter Blatty
What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night
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it made me wonder whether the brothers karamazov would have ever come down to us as a classic if its title had been the karamzov brothers.
— William Peter Blatty
All-good, like the vain, capricious, cruel God of Job? With all of eternity at His disposal, what fiendish new tortures might He not devise? A limited
— William Peter Blatty
How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds!
— William Peter Blatty
Regan killing Dennings? What madness! He envisioned her shoving
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In forgetting, they were trying to remember
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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
— William Peter Blatty
The Kurd stood waiting like an ancient debt.
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One more thing about evolution. They keep saying that it's chance, all chance, and that it's simple. Billions of fish kept
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Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
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As far as God goes, I am a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil
well, that's something else. — William Peter Blatty
well, that's something else. — William Peter Blatty
Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over. — William Peter Blatty
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over. — William Peter Blatty
That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman
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The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched.
— William Peter Blatty
For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
— William Peter Blatty
She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.
— William Peter Blatty
Why would an eye want to form?
— William Peter Blatty