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• One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms of their proposals. They've written up their proposal, long-form, and often what this does is then set up a sort of serial deal, where the whole book can essentially be reduced back to the size of the original proposal!

  Geoff Dyer

  Book, Long, Doe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.

  Blake Butler

  Girlfriend, Years, Brain

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.

  Chelsea Kane

  Thinking, Break, Whole Life

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if other people were doing the same thing. That's what happens when you suddenly have a critical perspective on your own behavior.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Long, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love anything to do with serial killers.

  T Cooper

  Serial Killer, Killers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

  Chelsea Cain

  Running, Ideas, Serial Killer

  Chelsea Cain (2011). “Evil at Heart”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

  Milan Kundera

  Character, Self, Numbers

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• But you hardley even know him"she said."He could be a serial killer" "I did have that thought.I checked the apartment out,but if his got an ice cooler full of arms in it,I havent seen it yet.Anyway he seems pretty since.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ice, Serial Killer, Arms

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

  John Grisham

  Men, Innocent Man, Serial Killer

  John Grisham (2010). “The Confession”, p.104, Random House

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• It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Scary, Community, Serial Killer

  Source: dailydead.com

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• When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. So instead of ponderous sci-fi or depressing sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi and all the things we're kind of used to, where it's always raining and it's always dark, I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to do something that was just fun and absolutely nonstop?" Like, I love writing action, and this thing is that. It's all action.

  Mark Millar

  Depressing, Growing Up, Fun

  "Mark Millar On Empress, Star Wars Influences, And Why He's Doing More Female-Led Comics". Interview with Joshua Yehl, za.ign.com. March 15, 2016.

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• I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

  Martha Plimpton

  Strong Women, Character, Sick

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• Donald Trump is a serial philanderer, by his own admission.

  Carly Fiorina

  Trump, Philanderer, Admission

  "Carly Fiorina Jumps to Defend Ted Cruz From Daily Mail Reporter Who Is "Dancing To Donald Trump's Tune"". Daily Mail Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 29, 2016.

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• When I was a kid, I remember the first Batman, the first Superman comic books when they came out, thinking how great that was and wouldn't it be great to see a movie like that. They did some cheap serials, but they're not the same as today. But I think younger audiences would like to see a real hero also.

  Clint Eastwood

  Real, Book, Hero

  "Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• In my workshop, I like to have the TV on for background noise, but I only put on shows that you don't really need to watch in serial order; stuff you can glance up every once in a while and still know what's going on; for example, Cops reruns, Jeopardy!, and Forensic Files.

  William Gurstelle

  Order, Background Noise, Example

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• Why couldn't there be even a western slasher, or why couldn't there be a serial killer in a kind of pirate buccaneer Caribbean, just someone that's just doing terrible, terrible things in the ports, the sexy ports of Jamaica during the Pirate Renaissance.

  Robert Englund

  Sexy, Jamaica, Pirate

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Note to our readers - Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 million members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.

  Ryan Grim

  Liars, Bully, Racist

  "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin and Michael Oreskes, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

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• I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

  Tom Araya

  Book, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knaclive.com. January 4, 2005.

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• I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's just sort of gratuitous or it's almost like pornographic, really. There's no reason for it being shown.

  Stanley Tucci

  Serial Killer, Information, Killers

  "Death and Afterlife in The Lovely Bones". Relevant Interview, relevantmagazine.com. December 18, 2009.

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• I became a radio nut. I loved the afternoon serials, and I got into jazz through the radio. I had a subscription to Down Beat when I was 12. And I'd spend a lot of time in front of the minor, miming records.

  George Carlin

  Nuts, Records, Afternoon

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• [In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.

  Judd Nelson

  Block, Dark, Lakes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Fascination, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Dates are fun, but being a serial dater isn't my thing; I'd rather care about someone and be able to wear sweatpants out to dinner. That's the end goal.

  Gerard Horan

  Fun, Goal, Able

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

  Mark Kozelek

  Guitar, Boxing, Guy

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.

  Maureen Johnson

  Men, Garden, Serial Killer

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