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Dennis Nilsen Quotes

1945–2018 Scotland

Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a British serial killer and necrophiliac, also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly Killer, who murdered at least 12 young men in a series of killings committed between 1978 and 1983 in London, England.

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It is frustrating to be translating other people's autobiographies whilst mine is lying unpublished, banned by the Home Office.

Quite a few of us get pissed with liver crippling draughts of prison hooch, that last vestige of herbal medicine still available to cons.

The devil makes work for idle thirsts. But given the choice between booze and cannabis, I go for ganja every time.

Being a loner has its advantages, a self-containment necessary for keeping body and 'soul' alive and progressing. Dying in prison is not such a great problem as living in prison.

Many years ago I was a boy drowning in the sea. I am always drowning in the sea... down amongst the dead men, deep down. There is a peace in the sea back down to our origins... when the last man has taken his breath the sea will still be remaining. It washes everything clean. It holds within it forever the boy suspended in its body and the streaming hair and the open eyes.

Brian Masters (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dennis Nilsen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.