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There was an air of luxury about the room, but it was the luxury of expert simplicity. — Ayn Rand

She had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland. — Ayn Rand

He and I had always felt as if we were fellow survivors from some vanishing age or land, in the gibbering swamp of mediocrity around us. — Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs

It seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. — Ayn Rand

He seemed casually at home, as if he felt that the place belonged to them, as they always felt wherever they went together. — Ayn Rand

She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice. — Ayn Rand

Sex is the physical expression of a tribute to personal values. — Ayn Rand

His glance was like a plea, like the cry for help of a man who could never cry. — Ayn Rand

Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts. — Ayn Rand

To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true.
Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand

Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly. — Ayn Rand

What are you laughing at?"
"It's wonderful."
"What?"
"The way you don't react as everybody else does nowadays. — Ayn Rand

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. — Ayn Rand

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. — Ayn Rand

Tension seemed natural to her, not a sign of anxiety, but a sign of enjoyment ... — Ayn Rand

On't worry about the goddamn bastards. The two words sounded shockingly violent, because his face and voice remained calm. — Ayn Rand

Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand. — Ayn Rand

Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil? — Ayn Rand

There's no way to make the irrational work. — Ayn Rand

It was not the mockery of malice - it was the laughter of a salute. — Ayn Rand

He was a man who had never accepted the creed that others had the right to stop him. He set his goal and moved toward it ... — Ayn Rand

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically. — Ayn Rand

Accepting a man's hospitality is a token of good will, a declaration that you and your host stand on terms of a civilized relationship. — Ayn Rand

To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. — Ayn Rand

Do I strike you as a man with a miserable inferiority complex?"
"Good God, no!"
"Only that kind of man spends his life running after women. — Ayn Rand

You can't have your cake and let your neighbour eat it too. — Ayn Rand

He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him. — Ayn Rand

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness. — Ayn Rand

Dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him. — Ayn Rand

The anti-mind is the anti-life. — Ayn Rand

When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. — Ayn Rand

Before Ayn Rand coined the term "objectivists", we just called them "selfish assholes". — James Rozoff

There was an expert competence in his manner of working; his movements were easy, intelligently economical. — Ayn Rand

I like to deal with somebody who has no illusions about getting favors. — Ayn Rand

If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind. — Ayn Rand

They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference. — Ayn Rand

There was so calm, so natural, so total a certainty in the sound of her voice that the mere sound seemed to carry an immense persuasiveness. — Ayn Rand

Nothing can justify injustice. — Ayn Rand

We do not tell - we show. We do not claim - we prove. — Ayn Rand

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

Your fear of death is not a love for life. . . — Ayn Rand

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence. — Ayn Rand

The source of work? Man's mind ... man's reasoning mind. — Ayn Rand

She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness. — Ayn Rand

Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives - and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. — Ayn Rand

His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth. — Ayn Rand

What glory can there be in the conquest of a mindless body? — Ayn Rand

There was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. — Ayn Rand

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. — Ayn Rand

There were moments when she felt a sudden, violent longing for him, but it was only impatience, not pain. — Ayn Rand

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong? — Ayn Rand

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy - she felt a stab of revulsion against that code.. — Ayn Rand

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. — Ayn Rand

I am in full agreement with the facts of everything said about me in the newspapers - with the facts, but not with the evaluation. — Ayn Rand

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice. — Ayn Rand

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. — Henry Rollins

She sat beside him in the car, feeling no desire to speak, knowing that neither of them could conceal the meaning of their silence. — Ayn Rand

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us. — Ayn Rand

The evaluation of an action as 'practical,' depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. — Ayn Rand