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Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

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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Everyone
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Someone
Doe
Persons
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Lament

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