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Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes

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 ...

What book had this girl read that had enabled her unconscious mind to simulate

Something unspeakable left the room.

Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.

One death is the parent of a thousand lives

The child was slender as fleeting hope.

This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.

Keep away. The sow is mine.

active catatonics. Among

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

You're a very strange man," said Amfortas.

Merrin began buttoning up the cassock. "Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon." The demon!

The child was slender as a fleeting hope.

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.

He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

Never was he conscious that his thoughts were prayers; only that the prayers were never answered.

It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

He drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

God was alien and cruel,

Mom, my bed was shaking.

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

drunk right now, Amfortas suspected, or high on amphetamine,

This making you nauseous a little?

WHAT WE GIVE TO THE POOR IS WHAT WE TAKE WITH US WHEN WE DIE.

The meantime, I don't know who you are, but you

Chris made a telephone call to her doctor in Los Angeles to ask him for a referral to a local psychiatrist for Regan.

We have every indication that he died of fright.

The shaven head and the man in white pants and the black woolen

She advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cunt.

I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

There, you see? I didn't curse. Don't you agree that I handled the situation demurely?

I think the dead should shut up unless there's something to say

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?

Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

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.

Good writing is rhythm.

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

Yes, I think so. A sign of the zodiac. I think Gemini.

Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us

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

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

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.

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

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!

Regan killing Dennings? What madness! He envisioned her shoving

In forgetting, they were trying to remember

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.

The Kurd stood waiting like an ancient debt.

One more thing about evolution. They keep saying that it's chance, all chance, and that it's simple. Billions of fish kept

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

As far as God goes, I am a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil
well, that's something else.

Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over.

That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman

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.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.

Why would an eye want to form?