"Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns……" — William Peter Blatty
"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 shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all."
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William Peter Blatty
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32 Quotes by William Peter Blatty
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I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural…
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I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance…
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When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
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But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage…
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Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we…
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From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver,…
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For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a…
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Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
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The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes
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I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.
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I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
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