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Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Tags: false hope, good, people, truth

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About Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (; born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.