Excellent book! I just could not put it down. I will admit when I came to the sixty page manifesto near the end I just had to skip it, it was pretty much reiterating everything Ayn had said already and I was going to be just so bored. Otherwise marvelous, just marvelous. Some very interesting ideas, although a bit extreme. But I suppose that’s just how she works.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
“This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one’s own greatness, knowing that it is understood.”
“Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.”
“‘Every man builds his world in his own image,’ he said. “He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”
“By holding nothing -nothing- above the verdict of my own mind.”
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