"Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person."

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Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.131, Broadway Books

Gillian Flynn

#Mean Quotes #Shallow Quotes #Well Being Quotes

“Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.”
“I have always felt that books help me feel less alone in the world. They make our lives bigger - they help us to feel feelings we wouldn't otherwise feel and to understand feelings that we don't have a framework for.”
“I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.”
“If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, weâ€™d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.”
“I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever fell underground. Kraftwerk...it was really mixed. Quite confusing, I suppose, but it just felt good.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When I was starting out, conceptual photography had become something that had to be amateur - like, that had to be black-and-white, or photocopied, or really not an object in order to be taken seriously. It had to work against technical mastery, and so on. So I think that my work is full of obstacles in the sense that it does look highly familiar and accessible. It does look like it's already "solved at first sight." It does look like it's part of a larger industry.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.”
“You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.”

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