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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F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American novelist and chronicler of the Jazz Age whose masterpiece 'The Great Gatsby' is widely considered the greatest American novel of the twentieth century. His luminous prose captured the glamour and moral emptiness of the American Dream with tragic precision.
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