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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.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Gillian Schieber Flynn
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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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 child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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 was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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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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Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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