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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
Notoriety
Cheap
Noticed
Easier
Something

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