Top 120 William Peter Blatty Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Good Christ almighty!”

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102. “Gliding spiderlike, rapidly, close behind Sharon, her body arched backward in a bow with her head almost touching her feet, was Regan, her tongue flicking quickly in and out of her mouth while she sibilantly hissed and moved her head very slightly back and forth like a cobra.”

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103. “Quis occidit eum?” Who killed him? “Regan.”

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104. “Yes, of course,” said Kinderman. “It’s very strange. But then it leaves us.”

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105. “And inwardly raged at this portion of his being that so frequently rendered him helpless in the face of someone’s plea; that he could not control; that lay coiled within him like a length of rope, always ready to fling itself out to rescue at the call of someone else’s need. It gave him no peace. Not even in sleep.”

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106. “Amid the tumble of his thoughts the now hesitant raindrops tapped at the windows like a blind man’s cane.”

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107. “Karl made a dash across the room, got ahead of Karras and pulled the front door open for him. They exchanged brief glances, and then Karras stepped out into the rainy night.”

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108. “You’re a very strange man,” said Amfortas.”

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109. “For an instant, Karras throbbed with a surge of rebellion, with a dull, weary anger at the piling on of weight upon weight.”

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110. “Well, they couldn’t, so apparently each of these cells has a consciousness, maybe, of its own. Are you with me?” Chris nodded. “Yeah, a little.” “Good. Now imagine that the human body.”

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111. “For a time, Karras watched him as he listed down the street; watched with fondness and with wonder at the heart’s labyrinthine turnings and improbable redemptions.”

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112. “Her condition isn’t quite what it seems,” explained Klein. “It’s a form of overcompensation, an overreaction to depression.”

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113. “Hesitation. Then “I’ve got one. What’s the name?” She wrote it down and then the telephone number. “Call and have him look her over and then tell him to call me,” the internist advised. “And forget the psychiatrist for now.” “Are you sure?”

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114. “Each hour, as it comes, is but a testimony how fleeting, yet how secure, how certain, is the great whole.”

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115. “His eyes tight, his head angled in surmise, Karras rose and stared down at the priest, demanding huskily, “Who in the hell are you, pal? Who are you?” The soft.”

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116. “You been playin’ with the Ouija board, Rags, honey?”

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117. “And dreamed about death in the staggering particular, death as if death were still never yet heard of while something was ringing, she gasping, dissolving, slipping off into void while thinking over and over, I am not going to be, I will die, I won’t be, and forever and ever, oh, Papa, don’t let them, oh, don’t let them do it, don’t let me be nothing forever and melting, unraveling, ringing, the ringing –.”

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118. “Which amoung the colourful and crowded palette of bizarre disorders of the mind had left the ghost of a brush stroke on his brain.”

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119. “Regan killing Dennings? What madness! He envisioned her shoving.”

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120. “Yes, whoa! The power of the mind controlled the blood flow. How? Who knows. But it happens. So in cases of stigmata – like the one with that prisoner I mentioned, or maybe even with Regan – the unconscious mind is controlling the differential of blood flow to the skin, sending more to.”

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121. “Gust-driven rain spattered back and forth in hesitant indecisive sweeps like a wispy grey soul just arrived on the empty streets of some afterworld, lost and forlorn.”

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122. “The heave of his muscular chest and shoulders stretched his T-shirt, distorting the stenciled word PHILOSOPHERS inscribed across the front in once-black letters now faded by repeated washings.”

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123. “Well, it’s sometimes the symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemicoelectrical activity of.”

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124. “This was like childhood, this grief.”

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125. “Fantasy playmate.”

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126. “Sharon shook her head. “He’s never come here,” she said. “And besides, he was in Boston that night at some convention.” “He’s a salesman?” asked Kinderman. “A lawyer.”

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127. “Oh, I know you don’t believe in the spirit world, Chris. But I do. And if I’m right, perhaps the bridge between the two worlds is what you yourself just mentioned, the subconscious mind. All I know is that things seem to happen. And, my dear, there are lunatic asylums all over the world filled with people who dabbled in the occult.”

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128. “Was the universe eternal?”

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129. “Booming and yet muffled, croaking, like an amplified premature burial, it called out “Merriiiiinnnnnn!” And then the massive and shiveringly hollow jolt of a single sledgehammer blow against the bedroom wall. “God.”

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130. “Bill, the point is that right in the middle of this horror there’s a creature called man who can see that it’s horrible. So where do we come up with these notions like ‘evil’ and ‘cruel’ and ‘unjust’? You can’t say a line looks a little bit crooked unless you’ve got a notion of a line that’s straight.”

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131. “Whenever she grinned, her entire face appeared to crinkle.”

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132. “Chris explained. Beginning on the day after Regan’s birthday – and following Howard’s failure to call – she had noticed a sudden and dramatic change in her daughter’s behavior and disposition. Insomnia. Quarrelsome. Fits of temper. Kicked things. Threw things. Screamed. Wouldn’t eat. In addition, her energy seemed abnormal. She was constantly moving, touching, turning.”

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133. “Roses. Elvira. He had warned her grimly that failure to check herself into a clinic within two weeks would result in his dogging her trail with warrants until he had evidence to effect her arrest. Yet.”

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134. “Methylphenidate.”

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