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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

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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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I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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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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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
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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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There are no really new stories anymore.
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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've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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