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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
World
Silent
Else
Someone
Done
Different
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