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William Peter Blatty

"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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Donna Grant

"The fact differentiates the fake."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

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Donna Grant

"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."

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Donna Grant

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

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Donna Grant

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

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Donna Grant

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."

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Donna Grant

"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."

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Donna Grant

"Science is a careful investigation."

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William Peter Blatty
"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."

Faith

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William Peter Blatty
"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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William Peter Blatty
"Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current."

Horror

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William Peter Blatty
"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

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William Peter Blatty
"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

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William Peter Blatty
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."

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William Peter Blatty
"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

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

Creativity

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William Peter Blatty
"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."

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William Peter Blatty
"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

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