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> ['Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/gone-girl-is-as-much-about-the-near-impossibility-of-being-a-good/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/043/elif-batuman-2172_being_gone-girl-is-as-much-about-the-near-impo_1836114.png)

> [It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/it-s-possible-to-watch-gone-girl-and-feel-that-you-have-seen/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/elif-batuman-2172_change_it-s-possible-to-watch-gone-girl-and-fee_2528976.png)

## Other authors on Gone Girl

## More by Elif Batuman

> [My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/my-parents-were-born-into-a-secular-country-they-met-in-turkey-s-top/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/i-leafed-through-the-phrase-book-if-a-martian-read-it-the-martian/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/you-can-t-invent-something-you-have-no-epistemological-access-to-in-a/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/poetry-is-another-space-like-love-where-we-extend-that-extra-credit/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me what painting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/svetlana-said-that-she-identified-with-that-madonna-more-than-with/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/one-of-the-most-painful-parts-of-a-breakup-is-having-the-feeling-that/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [“Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/dracula-visited-the-wolf-department-at-the-zoological-gardens-these/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/i-like-to-think-that-i-know-a-lot-of-words-but-i-definitely-don-t/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [“I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/i-don-t-know-if-i-ended-up-siding-with-the-academics-just-because-i/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/people-don-t-become-writers-because-they-love-having-spontaneous-real/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [“Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/each-work-of-criticism-is-supposed-to-build-on-the-body-of-work-to/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/humor-is-really-important-to-me-all-my-favorite-writers-are-writers-i/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/every-time-a-meteor-comes-close-to-the-earth-we-all-think-about-the/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/i-felt-grateful-to-ataturk-that-my-parents-were-so-well-educated-that/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

> [“For a moment it felt like we weren’t in the Danube at all but in the river of time, and everyone was at a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/for-a-moment-it-felt-like-we-weren-t-in-the-danube-at-all-but-in-the/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

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