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Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.


Elie Wiesel


#ayn-rand #evil #evil-men #objectivism #psychopathic-personalities

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.


David Mitchell


#music #self-referential #writing #music

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.


Ayn Rand


#enemy

Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd give a year of my life to see a flicker of talent anywhere among them. They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. They have no way of knowing what he feels when surrounded by inferiors - hatred? no, not hatred, but boredom - the terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom. Of what account are praise and adulation from men whom you don't respect? Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?" "I've felt it all my life," she said.


Ayn Rand


#atlas-shrugged #inspirational #mediocrity #objectivism #second-handers

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.


David Mitchell


#cloud-atlas #disgust #hate #history #postmodern

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?


Ayn Rand


#admiration #atlas-shrugged #inspirational #love #objectivism

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.


Anne Hathaway


#art #art form #atlas #ayn #ayn rand

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.


Ken Jennings


#i #knew #pleasure #read #weird

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


Clarence Thomas


#ayn #ayn rand #fountainhead #i #partial

I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.


Lauren DeStefano


#love #romance #love






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