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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
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.
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Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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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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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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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 don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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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 like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
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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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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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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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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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