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F. Scott Fitzgerald1 quote
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. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1936Glenn Ligon1 quote
The "one" that I am is composed of narratives that overlap, run parallel to, and often contradict each other. — Glenn Ligon · 2011H.P. Lovecraft1 quote
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. — H.P. Lovecraft · 1928Walt Whitman1 quote
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) — Walt Whitman · 1855