"Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite"

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Source : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.281, Broadway Books

Gillian Flynn

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“I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.”
“You really don't want to go to court and have the judge decide based on whether or not they're your friend, because you don't want to be thinking that the (judge's) friend is on the other side (of the court case).”
“There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.”
“Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.”

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“At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.”
“A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic ones. I mean face-to-face, in-person contact and communication. I have identified several modern paradoxes and the first is that, for various reasons, we have grown electronically superconnected but we have simultaneously grown emotionally disconnected from each other.”

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“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you donâ€™t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”
“Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.”

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