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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
- Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
- Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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