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It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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Zelda Fitzgerald
Age: 47 †
Born: 1900
Born: July 24
Died: 1948
Died: March 10
Artist
Autobiographer
Dancer
Journalist
Novelist
Painter
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Writer
Montgomery
Alabama
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
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Allow
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Habit
Conventions
Terrible
Household
Hold
Conventional
Sleep
Habits
Live
Clock
Whole
Gain
Ticks
Gains
Tick

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