“American author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) wrote a collection of essays entitled “The Crack-Up,” which makes the following astute observation: “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideals in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” For instance, he cites the ability to perceive that the situation is hopeless, and still be determined to make it otherwise. Sensitive people who came before me asked the same disconcerting questions that haunt me. Other troubled souls either drank themselves into oblivion or worked themselves to death in search of the elusive answer to this Fitzgeraldian question: Is it a sign of a lucid mind to place two contradictory ideas abreast and accept the merits of both propositions? Alternatively, is the deliberate act of embracing differing ideas with inapposite conclusions the warning sign of a troubled mind’s impending crackup?” Writers On WritingWriting LifeWriting AdviceWriters QuotesGreat MindsWriters On ThinkingMadness And SanityEssayistCrack Up Book:Dead Toad Scrolls Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a crumbling “love never, ever again”- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ("Another empty room")” LoveHardHateEasySimpleEmotionalTrustEmptyRevelationCrumblingBondsRoomParadise LostLove ForeverGruelingBlastedCrack UpIrrevocablyLove Never AgainRoute Back Author:Erik Pevernagie