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He had a wall of masks from every country he‘d been to, like Armenia and Chile and Ethiopia. It‘s not a horrible world, he told me, but it‘s filled with a lot of horrible people.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What It Means

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Jonathan Safran Foer

About Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American fiction writer.