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Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
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Something
Always
Justification
Everywhere
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