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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

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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
Mocked
Humbling
Become
Thing

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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.
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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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