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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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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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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
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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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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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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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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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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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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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