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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Pragmatism

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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. One should ... be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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The Crack-Up, page 69, New York City: New Directions, 1945

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