Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I was the only one who could afford to."
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"You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I was the only one who could afford to."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end result of the most profound, most solemn thinking."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, whose judgment did you take?”“Mine.”“But whom did you consult about it?”“Nobody."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"He knew that the dread in these men’s minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!"
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"...dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wanted to tell him that his enemies were hers, that she was fighting the same battle..."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"It was the only lie she ever told. She did not do it to protect Francisco; she did it because she felt, for some reason which she could not define, that the incident was a secret too precious to share."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?”“Of course.”“That’s not the reaction of most people to being wanted.”“It isn’t.”“Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them.”“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me..."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them.”“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me..."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"...he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane—that one had to seek that which was right, because the right answer always won—that the senseless, the wrong, the monstrously unjust could not work, could not succeed, could do nothing but defeat itself."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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