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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
Anymore
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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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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Safer to be feared than loved.
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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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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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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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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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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.
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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 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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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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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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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 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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