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"The fact differentiates the fake."
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Personal Development
"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
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Personal Development
"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
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Personal Development
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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Personal Development
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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Personal Development
"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."
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Personal Development
"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."
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Personal Development
"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."
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Personal Development
"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
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Personal Development
"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
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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."
Horror
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
Houses
"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."
Movies
"Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current."
Horror
"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
Faith
"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
Creativity
"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."
Movies
"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
Creativity
"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."
Truth
"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."
Press
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