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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.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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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've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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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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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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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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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 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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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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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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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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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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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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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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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 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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