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“If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.”
Source : The House of Intellect ch. 6 (1959)
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“Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.”
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“Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.”
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“Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.”
Source : "Jon Voight: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 10, 2013.
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“Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?”
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“I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”
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“Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.”
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“The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.”
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“When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.”
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“For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.”
Source : William Peter Blatty (2015). “William Peter Blatty on "The Exorcist": From Novel to Screen”, p.10, Macmillan