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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Other Quotes by "William Peter Blatty"

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
Tags: faith, evil
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
Tags: wizard-of-oz, religion
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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For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
Tags: reason, faith
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.
Tags: horror, story, never, police
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