If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something di…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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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 (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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 (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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