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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
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Feared
Safer
Loved

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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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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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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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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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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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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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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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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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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
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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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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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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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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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