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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Film Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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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've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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