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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Film Critic
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Television Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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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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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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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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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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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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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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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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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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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 don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.
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