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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Gillian Flynn

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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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Really
Love
Loving
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Differences
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Someone

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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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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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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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.
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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 all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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