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Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Schools
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Read
Thought
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Everything
Lubricant
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