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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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