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But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

William Peter Blatty

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William Peter Blatty
Died: 2017
Died: January 12
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