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All Quotes Collection
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
35
"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."
41
"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
45
"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
44
"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."
56
"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."
50
"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
39
"We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind."
44
"The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty."
50
"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself."
55
"The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology."
45
"The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence."
128
"The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life."
38
"The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism."
49
"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."
50
"The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards."
58
"It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead."
54
"Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form."
Will,
53
"Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green."
212
"But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of."
56
"As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe."
44
"It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them."
45
"If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them."
59
"To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other."
19
"I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is."
18
"The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top."
20
"Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence."
24
"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force."
45
"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
Poor,
61
"Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome."
60
"All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds."
60
"Credit... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man."
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