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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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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
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Television Critic
Writer
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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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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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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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'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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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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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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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 can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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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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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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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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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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