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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf. — Orlando Bloom

She did not smile, but her face had the lovely serenity that can become a smile without transition. — Ayn Rand

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. — Clarence Thomas

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

She drove fast, as a matter of habit, an even speed without a sense of haste. — Ayn Rand

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. — Ayn Rand

You're not even boasting about it."
"Should I?"
"You can't. You're too arrogant to boast. — Ayn Rand

No," she said, before he could utter a word, "you can't take me home. I have a car waiting. Thank you just the same. — Ayn Rand

...Opinion without a rational process. — Ayn Rand

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. — Ayn Rand

If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning. — Ayn Rand

You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out. — Ayn Rand

My real soul ... ? It's real only when it's independent ... — Ayn Rand

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. — Ayn Rand

A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. — Ayn Rand

I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you. — Ayn Rand

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead" — Ayn Rand

Dominique, it's abnormal to feel so strongly about anything." "That's the only way I can feel. Or not at all. — Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled ... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional. — Ayn Rand

She seemed to find him suitable as an inconsequential companion for an occasional, inconsequential evening. He thought that she liked him. — Ayn Rand

His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter. — Ayn Rand

To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great? — Ayn Rand

He does not achieve through other men nor for other men, he achieves through and for himself alone, then offers it to others. — Ayn Rand

It's a law of survival, isn't it? - to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine. — Ayn Rand

It was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words. — Ayn Rand

For people who enjoyed their own presence well enough and sought only a place where they would be left free to enjoy it. — Ayn Rand

And, after all, you've got to live."
"Not that way," said Roark. — Ayn Rand

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men. — Ayn Rand

I don't like people who try to say only what they think I think. — Ayn Rand

What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word - 'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance. — Ayn Rand

The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer. — Ayn Rand

She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose. — Ayn Rand

You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn't want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act ... — Ayn Rand

I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society. — Ayn Rand

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time. — Ayn Rand

Creation comes before distribution
or there will be nothing to distribute. — Ayn Rand

All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil. — Ayn Rand

Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake: he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost. — Ayn Rand

When one makes enemies one knows that one's dangerous where it's necessary to be dangerous. — Ayn Rand

She knew that neither his clothes nor the years stood between her and the living intactness of that memory. — Ayn Rand

She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms. — Ayn Rand

She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity. — Ayn Rand

The best is a matter of standards - and I set my own standards. — Ayn Rand

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

Her face looked as if she knew his worst suffering and it was hers and she wished to bear it like this, coldly, asking no words of mitigation. — Ayn Rand

She found a dark satisfaction in pain - because that pain came from him. — Ayn Rand

She had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found. — Ayn Rand

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing. — Ayn Rand

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother. — Ayn Rand

Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? — Ayn Rand