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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Imagining
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Thing

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