I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consid…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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