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There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Everything
Nothing
Even
Compromising
Compromise
Almost
Wrong

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