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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. So what's something? Being reliable is something. Being good.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Feel
Feels
Something
Make
Highs
Good
Reliable
Things
Lows
Nothing
Matter

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