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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
Journalist
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Television Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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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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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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