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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Believe
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People
Accept
Habit
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Fiction
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Fictions
Cannot
Wholeheartedly
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Inventing

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