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• I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Moving, Past, Serial Killer

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• Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

  Libba Bray

  Soccer, Mom, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.197, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Yes, he’s a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he’s on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick) I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I’m making real progress though. (Caleb)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Football, Baby, Fun

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• For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Self, Imagination

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• I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Stories, Television, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Numbers, Pyramids, Long

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

  Lev Grossman

  Doubt, Serial Killer, Killers

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Authority, Certain, Areas

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

  Gena Showalter

  Tattoo, Serial Killer, Handsome

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.41, HQN Books

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• I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

  Tommy Lasorda

  School, Army, Gun

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• Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Animal, Air, Years

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• I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real life, so that's where you have to delve into and do all the research. But, you have to find something likable in the character.

  Jamie Dornan

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

  Neil Diamond

  Play, Singing, Serial Killer

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Serial Killer, Technique, Use

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• You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

  Johnny Galecki

  Thinking, Serial Killer, Killers

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• I'm a serial monogamist.

  Paloma Faith

  "Winona Ryder on why she's never been married", www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2016.

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• Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

  Bill James

  Emotional, Stories, Tolls

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• It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.

  Andy Borowitz

  Sweaters, Cost, Vests

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 25, 2012

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• I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, Choices, Soul

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• If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

  Brendon Urie

  People, Serial Killer, Killers

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• I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.

  Robert Greenblatt

  Serial Killer, Vampire, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Reality, Serial Killer

  Source: collider.com

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• If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

  Albert Brooks

  Hunting, Serial Killer, Looks

  "Interview: Albert Brooks Sees Into the Future" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the Constitution by granting a blanket amnesty, with his efforts to do just that when it was no longer politically inexpedient. I don't think a president has ever quite so habitually warned the country of the dangers that would soon emanate from himself.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Kings, Thinking

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