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Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Crazy
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Revelation
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...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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