“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
“Demons are wary of talking and must be forced to speak. When demons are voluntarily chatty it's a trick to distract the exorcist. We must never ask useless questions out of curiosity. We but must interrogate with care. We always begin by asking for the demon's name.”
Source: "An Interview With Fr Gabriele Amorth - The Church's Leading Exorcist" (2001)
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Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist 1925–2016Related quotes
“When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“The demons will always be there, Always. But you know, (hard breath) you can always fight demons.”
on his drug addiction problems.
“You cannot simply ask whether people look like their demon grandfather!”
Source: Nothing but Shadows
Anatol Rapoport, "Modern Systems Theory – An Outlook for Coping with Change", paper given in the 1970 John Umstead Distinguished Lectures at North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Research Division, on 5 February 1970, and appeared in Revue Francaise de Sociologie, October 1969, p. 16
1970s and later
that haunts us, because the messages that are sent from the time we are little is: maybe you are not, don't reach too high, don't talk too loud.
Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3 December 2018) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46434147
2010s