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It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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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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My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
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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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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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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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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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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 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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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
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I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.
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