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There are no really new stories anymore.

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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
Stories
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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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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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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'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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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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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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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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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
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