Quotes by William Peter Blatty - Page 1

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
William Peter Blatty / Writer
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Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
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Procrastination
Resistance
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What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night
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Morning
Endless
Night
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The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes
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Blind
Eye
Sun
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I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
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Haunting
Hills
House
Sometime
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I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.
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Four
House
Steps
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I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
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Steps
Houses
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
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Doe
Horror
Littles
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
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Me Know Old
Current
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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
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Novel
Research
Strengthened
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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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Drug
Filters
Powerful
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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Devil
Doe
Father
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I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
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Paperback
Publisher
Sold
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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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Belief
Matter
Thinking
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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.
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Devil
Stills
Wells
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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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War
Children
Earth
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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.
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Directors
Submerged
Unconscious
Unnoticed
Aware
Influenced
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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.
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Sad
Careers
Comedy
Existence
Exorcist
Memories
Sad Truth
Truth Is
Writing
Ended
Memory
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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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Crucible
Evil
Work Out
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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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Home
Exorcism
Places To Go
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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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Liars
Lying
Powerful
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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 for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies
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Awards
Thinking
Watches
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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 for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.
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Academy Award
Award
Near
Nomination
Thinks
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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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Definitions
Feelings
Nice
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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 procedural.
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Detectives
Exorcist
Horror
Paranormal
Police
Stories
Detective
Detective Story
Procedural
Supernatural
Suspenseful
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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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Creepy
Real
Response
Way
Way Feel Real
Hospital
Procedure
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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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Mind
Personality
Use
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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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Camouflage
Facts
Fancy
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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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Commissioned
Completed
Press
Studio
Row
Sold
Turned
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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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Campaigning
Devoted
Restoring
Portion
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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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Men
Eye
Sun
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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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Life
Circles
Revenge
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Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.
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House
Humanity
Thinking
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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. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.
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Believe
Order
Years
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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, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.
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Men
Black
House
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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? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.
William Peter Blatty / Writer
Men
Joy
Perfect
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