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Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

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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Days
Causes
Hours
Understand
War
Nights
Lost
Boredom
Night
Empty

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