William Peter Blatty

Writer

1928-01-07

Books by William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist
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Smoke and Mirrors
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Legion
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Quotes by William Peter Blatty

We use concepts like consciousness---mind---personality, but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
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Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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And there lies the heart of it, perhaps: in unworthiness. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love: of accepting the possibility that God could ever love us.
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As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.
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Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
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The child was slender as fleeting hope.
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Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.
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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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We use concepts like consciousness---mind---personality, but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
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Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
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Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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The child was slender as fleeting hope.
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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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And there lies the heart of it, perhaps: in unworthiness. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love: of accepting the possibility that God could ever love us.
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Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
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As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.
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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
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