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Book: The Fountainhead
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
Victor Hugo: "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
...she had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found.
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
It's not just the kind of work you do; I wouldn't care, if you were an exhibitionist who's being different as a stunt, as a lark, just to attract attention to himself. It's a smart racket, to oppose the crowd and amuse it and collect admission to the side show. If you did that, I wouldn't worry. But it's not that. You love your work. God help you, you love it! And that's the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it, and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear.
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.
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If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste."It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive".
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
He thought of how convincingly he could describe this scene to friends and make them envy the fullness of his contentment. Why couldn't he convince himself? He had everything he'd ever wanted. He had wanted superiority--and for the last year he had been the undisputed leader of his profession. He had wanted fame--and he had five thick albums of clippings. He had wanted wealth--and he had enough to insure luxury for the rest of his life. He had everything anyone ever wanted. How many people struggled and suffered to achieve what he had achieved? How many dreamed and bled and died for this, without reaching it?
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain.
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life of service and self-sacrifice. Everybody had said it was beautiful and inspiring. Only he had not felt inspired. He had felt nothing at all.
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
I'm going to die," he said aloud--and yawned. He felt no relief, no despair, no fear. The moment of his end would not grant him even the dignity of seriousness. It was an anonymous moment; a few minutes ago, he had held a toothbrush in that hand; now he held a gun with the same casual indifference."
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.
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