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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Intelligence

1896–1940 United States

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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

The Crack-Up (1936)

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.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: F. Scott Fitzgerald (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.