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"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
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"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."

"The leadings of the Holy Spirit will help you to achieve your goals in the quickest way."

"God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the day all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize that fact was to knock it down."

"We need to remember not to give the devil a chance and fall away from God's grace."

"It is a special privilege and calling to live in two millenniums."

"God knows everything that happened in your life."

"A clarion call to the 7000 remnants who are yet to bow their knees to Baal, to arise and come out of the wilderness to take charge of the guard that would lead their Nations and church to the promise land."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."

"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."

"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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