The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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- "The Crack-Up," Esquire, February 1936 — Fitzgerald's own voice in a personal essay, collected posthumously in The Crack-Up (ed. Wilson, 1945).
- The Crack-Up (Esquire)
- 1936 · the first of a three-part confessional essay
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