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Safer to be feared than loved.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Film Critic
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Television Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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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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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 grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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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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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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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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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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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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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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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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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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There are no really new stories anymore.
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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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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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