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The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Turns
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Rather
Quickly
Fact
Fortune
Facts
Mere
Fictions
Else
Fame
Alarming
Order
Fiction
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Someone
Turn
Glamour
People
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