Written By William Peter Blatty
Read by William Peter Blatty
Quotable Quotes from the Exorcist ( Book ) ;
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Jason Miller as Father Karras
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( Father Karras's Lost faith ) “... the love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.” William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
“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 hissed sibilantly like a serpent. Sharon stopped then screamed as she felt Regan's tongue snaking out at her ankle. That day, everywhere Sharon went, Regan followed.” William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
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Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil
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“The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched.” William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
" “Yeah, hello and good-bye,” Karras growled. “Who are you and what the fuck are you doing in my room?” " William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
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Max von Sydow as Father Merrin
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“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is every part of it, restless and migratory as are its elements, still it abides. It is bound together by a law of permanence, and though it is ever dying, it is ever coming to life again. Dissolution does but give birth to fresh modes of organization, and one death is the parent of a thousand lives.” William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
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Regan in the throes of Possession, "... Gliding spiderlike, rapidly ..."
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