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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
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Film Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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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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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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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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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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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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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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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 don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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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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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.
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