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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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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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Crime
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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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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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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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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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've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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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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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 was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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