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Commonplace Book:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes:

“A First-Rate Intelligence”

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.

1936 from The Crack-Up

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