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Unlike profiling serial killers, writing is a lonely and depressing profession.
— Millennium ‧ 1996
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker describes writing as lonely and depressing, then sets it against profiling serial killers. The unexpected comparison supplies the dark humour: an activity with such grim subject matter is offered as the contrast to writing's isolation and unhappiness.
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