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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
Earnestness
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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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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
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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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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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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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I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
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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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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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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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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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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 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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I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
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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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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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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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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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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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