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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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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
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Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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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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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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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People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.
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I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.
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I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
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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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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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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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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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My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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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've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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