“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist
“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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