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You gonna stand in my backyard and ignore me to my face? — Frances O'Roark Dowell

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark. — Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

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

He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness. — Ayn Rand

Roark walked now to these drawings; they were the first things to be packed. — 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

Mr. Roark, I'm so sorry about - " she hesitated demurely " - about what happened this morning. — Ayn Rand

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

Your ego is the strictest judge.
-Howard Roark in his speech at his trial. — Ayn Rand

HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. — Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. — 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

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

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

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

We have met once," she said, "at the Holcombes. If Mr. Roark remembers. — 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

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

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

Tobin, my man, you are going to learn about chickens. And when you to learn about chickens, you will learn about life. — Frances O'Roark Dowell

Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together.
~Rev. Mayes
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be — Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

Quit it already. I'm pretty enough as it is. — Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark) — Ayn Rand

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

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

That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you. — Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

I have to say, it felt good to be wanted, son. Felt real good. — Frances O'Roark Dowell

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

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark. — Neil Peart

They mistrust you because they think you'll be the death of me," Roark said softly. "Tell me, Nix. Will you? — Jae T. Jaggart

4. If you do not give your chickens enough space, light, air, and walking-around room, they will eat one another. — Frances O'Roark Dowell

Dream girl? Ain't such a thing. You walk, you talk, you got mammary glands, well, that's gonna do it right there for most guys. — Frances O'Roark Dowell