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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
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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've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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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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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.
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We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
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