Atlas Shrugged Quotes are known for their power, Objectivism and post WW2 capitalistic approach, as we are about to publish the spun version of Atlas Shrugged - Atlas Gesture by Shirley Stubbs, we’ll like to use this opportunity to take a closer look at some of out favorite Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged quotes in relation to their spun version. → Read more…
Quotes
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Women in Love
The Quote:
I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.
D. H. Lawrence,
Women in Love
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The Rainbow
The Quote:
And she knew that if she turned, she would die. A strange rage filled her, a rage to tear things asunder. Her hands felt destructive, like metal blades of destruction.
D. H. Lawrence,
The Rainbow
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Nostromo
The Quote:
I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.
Joseph Conrad,
Nostromo
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The Secret Agent
The Quote:
Don't you know what the police are for, Stevie? They are there so that them as have nothing shouldn't take anything away from them who have.
Joseph Conrad,
The Secret Agent
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The Sun Also Rises
Posted on . Category: Quotes » The Sun Also Rises . Tags: American Literature, Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway, Lost Generation, Post World War I.
The Quote:
You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.
Ernest Hemingway,
The Sun Also Rises
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Point Counter Point
The Quote:
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley,
Point Counter Point
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A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
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Category: Quotes » A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement .
Tags: Anthony Powell, British, WW2.
Category: Quotes » A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement .
Tags: Anthony Powell, British, WW2.
The Quote:
His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.
Anthony Powell,
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
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Deliverance
The Quote:
I had the feeling that if it were perfectly quiet, if I could hear nothing, I would never wake up. Something in the world had to pull me back, for every night I went down deep, and if I had any sensation during sleep, it was of going deeper and deeper, trying to reach a point, a line or border.
James Dickey,
Deliverance
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Lord of the Flies
The Quote:
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
William Golding,
Lord of the Flies
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The Heart of the Matter
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Category: Quotes » The Heart of the Matter .
Tags: Chick Lit, Graham Greene, Relationships, Romance.
Category: Quotes » The Heart of the Matter .
Tags: Chick Lit, Graham Greene, Relationships, Romance.
The Quote:
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
Graham Greene,
The Heart of the Matter
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Category: Quotes » Go Tell It on the Mountain .
Tags: African American, Biblical, Contemporary, James Baldwin.
Category: Quotes » Go Tell It on the Mountain .
Tags: African American, Biblical, Contemporary, James Baldwin.
The Quote:
It was he who had told her to weep, when she wept, alone; never to let the world see, never to ask for mercy; if one had to die, to go ahead and die, but never to let oneself be beaten.
James Baldwin,
Go Tell It on the Mountain
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