Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "I can't remember. Which?" "Do you know what those words mean?" "Not really." "An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical." "I'm an optimist." "Well, that's good, because theres no irrefutable evidence. Theres nothing that could convince someone who doesnt want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.
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Jonathan Safran Foer was a contemporary American novelist. Jonathan Safran Foer 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). Read more on Wikipedia →

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