> Steve Perry wrote:
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> >the fitz observation you cite is, appropriately enough, from 'the crack-up.'
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> Anyone have the exact wording?
>
> Doug
"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, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson
Chris