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Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
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Washington
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.
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She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.
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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
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