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When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

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