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| | Quentin Crisp |  | An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. |
| | George Crumb | | In general, I feel that the more rationalistic approaches to pitch-organization, including specifically serial technique, have given way, largely, to a more intuitive approach. |
| | Caleb Carr | | People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people. |
| | James Ellroy | | Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer. |
| | James Gunn | | The compassion is instigated by the situation, and Godwin, a bit ham-handedly, belabors the situation so that there can be no doubt in the reader's mind, makes Marilyn sweet, young, and innocent (rather than a cold-blooded murderer or serial killer) so that reader will want to save her - and then the realization of "the cold equations" will be more effective. |
| | David Hackworth | | While there's no question that Saddam is a silver-screen-size villain who definitely deserves the worst, the world stage is filled with other serial-killer types also plotting how to inflict maximum pain on much of the Free World. |
| | Lou Harrison | | Cowell gave me an enormous amount of 'how to' knowledge, including how to write a serial piece before I went to Schoenberg. Also an immense stimulation about world music. He was an absolutely fascinating man, because of his knowledge not only of world music but also of how to do different things. |
| | Milan Kundera | | 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. |
| | Claude Levi-Strauss | | Contemporary serial music is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination. |
| | Steve Reich | | In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. |
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