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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.
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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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