Top 91 William Peter Blatty Quotes
#1. It's all ka-ka, saying mind is really brain. Sure, my hand is in my pocket. Is my pocket my hand? Every wino on M Street knows a thought is a thought and not some cells or chazerei going on in the brain. They know that jealousy is not some kind of game from Atari.
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#3. There, you see? I didn't curse. Don't you agree that I handled the situation demurely?
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#5. 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.
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#7. She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.
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#8. Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
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#9. Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over.
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#11. He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered whether God was alien and cruel, but then remembered Beethoven and the dappling of things and "Hurrah for Karamazov" and kindness. He
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#12. Chris made a telephone call to her doctor in Los Angeles to ask him for a referral to a local psychiatrist for Regan.
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#13. 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 way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.
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#15. 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
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#18. 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.
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#19. For days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by
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#20. 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.
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#21. He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen.
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#22. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.
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#24. Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.
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#25. I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
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#26. 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 procedural.
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#29. We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops
which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.
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#30. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
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#31. Carrot-and-stick reinforcement' the behaviorists are telling us is needed for this bird to carry out these operations, thirteen different types of construction jobs? B. F. Skinner did a very good thing: in World War
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#33. 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.
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#34. At the edge of his dreams, there was often a sound like the faint, distant cry of someone in distress, and for minutes after waking, he would feel the anxiety of some duty unfulfilled.
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#35. 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 otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.
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#36. They Said, "what sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" - John 6: 30 - 31
You do not believe although you have seen... - John 6: 36 - 37
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#40. He drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.
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#42. Sharon shook her head. "He's never come here," she said. "And besides, he was in Boston that night at some convention." "He's a salesman?" asked Kinderman. "A lawyer.
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#43. The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermilion dapples on the darkening waters of the river. Once Karras met God in this sight. Long ago. Like a lover forsaken, he still kept the rendezvous.
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#45. He started his engine and turned on the windshield wipers in time to see a tall old man stepping out of the cab. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless under a misty streetlamp's glow, staring up at a window of the house like a melancholy traveler frozen in time. As
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#47. Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
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#48. 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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#50. I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
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#51. Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.
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#53. Karras showered and then dressed in a T-shirt and trousers. Sitting down to his desk, he discovered a carton of Camel non-filters, and beside it a key that was labeled LANGUAGE LAB and another
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#55. Out, Himmler! Out of my sight! Go and visit your club-footed daughter! Bring her sauerkraut! Sauerkraut and heroin, Thorndike! She will love it! She will - !
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#56. God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. Merrin began buttoning up the cassock. "Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon." The demon!
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#61. 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 ...
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#63. Didn't," Chris told him. "She was also sedated when last we spoke?" "Yes, she was." "I thought I saw her at her window that day." "Well, you're mistaken." "It could be. Perhaps so. I'm not sure." "Listen, why are you asking all this?" "Well, a clear
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#64. Regan's pulse was astonishing. It hammered at a speed too rapid to gauge. Across the bed, Merrin reached out calmly and with the end of his thumb traced the sign of the cross on Regan's vomit-covered chest. The words of his prayer were swallowed up in the poundings.
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#66. I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
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#68. 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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#69. 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!
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#70. It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.
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#71. 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
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#72. What book had this girl read that had enabled her unconscious mind to simulate
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#73. Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us
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#74. Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
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#80. I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.
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#81. As far as God goes, I am a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil
well, that's something else.
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#82. Never was he conscious that his thoughts were prayers; only that the prayers were never answered.
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#85. Booming and yet muffled, croaking, like an amplified premature burial, it called out "Merriiiiinnnnnn!" And then the massive and shiveringly hollow jolt of a single sledgehammer blow against the bedroom wall. "God
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#86. Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
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#88. 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 I watch my movies.
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#89. 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.
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#91. 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?
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