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Yesterday was the centennial of Ayn Rand's birth. I'm only posting this for the quotes below. - Perdita
“From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To the gas chambers—go!’”
—Whittaker Chambers, National Review (1957)
“Like most of my contemporaries, I first read The Fountainhead when I was 18 years old. I loved it. I too missed the point. I thought it was a book about a strong-willed architect...and his love life….I deliberately skipped over all the passages about egoism and altruism. And I spent the next year hoping I would meet a gaunt, orange-haired architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect.”
—Nora Ephron, The New York Times Book Review (1968)
“He spent several days deciding on the artifacts [that would be found with his dead body]....He would be found lying on his back, on his bed, with a copy of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (which would prove he had been a misunderstood superman rejected by the masses and so, in a sense, murdered by his scorn) and an unfinished letter to Exxon protesting the cancellation of his gas credit card.”
—Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (1977)
MARGE: Maggie…likes a bottle of warm milk before nap time.
MS. SINCLAIR: A bottle? Mrs. Simpson, do you know what a baby’s saying when she reaches for a bottle?
MARGE: “Ba Ba?”
MS. SINCLAIR: She’s saying “I am a leech!” Our aim here is to develop the bottle within.
MARGE: That sounds awfully harsh.
—conversation between Marge and the proprietor of the Ayn Rand School for Tots, The Simpsons (1992)
“From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To the gas chambers—go!’”
—Whittaker Chambers, National Review (1957)
“Like most of my contemporaries, I first read The Fountainhead when I was 18 years old. I loved it. I too missed the point. I thought it was a book about a strong-willed architect...and his love life….I deliberately skipped over all the passages about egoism and altruism. And I spent the next year hoping I would meet a gaunt, orange-haired architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect.”
—Nora Ephron, The New York Times Book Review (1968)
“He spent several days deciding on the artifacts [that would be found with his dead body]....He would be found lying on his back, on his bed, with a copy of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (which would prove he had been a misunderstood superman rejected by the masses and so, in a sense, murdered by his scorn) and an unfinished letter to Exxon protesting the cancellation of his gas credit card.”
—Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (1977)
MARGE: Maggie…likes a bottle of warm milk before nap time.
MS. SINCLAIR: A bottle? Mrs. Simpson, do you know what a baby’s saying when she reaches for a bottle?
MARGE: “Ba Ba?”
MS. SINCLAIR: She’s saying “I am a leech!” Our aim here is to develop the bottle within.
MARGE: That sounds awfully harsh.
—conversation between Marge and the proprietor of the Ayn Rand School for Tots, The Simpsons (1992)
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