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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
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Painter
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Montgomery
Alabama
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