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I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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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. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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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. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world. ↗

— Margaret Smith Court

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I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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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. ↗

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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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. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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