Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please. ✨ Jonathan …

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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