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Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Trying
Intend
Closer
Opposite
Opposites
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Saying

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