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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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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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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.
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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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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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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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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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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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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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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.
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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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