William Peter Blatty Quotes

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• I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police…
• I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's…
• When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
• But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't…
• Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die?…
• From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless,…
• For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
• Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the…
• Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
• The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes
• I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.
• I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
• Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
• I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same…
• 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…
• In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration.…
• I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
• What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night
• Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will…
• We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

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