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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
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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People
Earnestness
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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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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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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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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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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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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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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I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.
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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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