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“Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because Im not the Gail Wynand youd heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love youd want to be broken, tr...”
“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am abs...”
“What separates Rand from Marx is that the latter saw the true flourishing of individual creativity as best accomplished through collaboration and association with others in a collective drive to ab...”
“If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.”
“Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.”
“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify ...”
“And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt”
“The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.”
“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”
“Charity must be voluntary.”
“Gosh, even Roark noticed Dominique.”
“Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken,...”
