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I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

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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
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Lubrication
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Always
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