“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead (Primary source)
Architect Howard Roark refuses to compromise his innovative designs for conventional styles, battling the architectural establishment and society’s pressure to conform. The novel champions individual creativity and integrity against collectivist mediocrity and social conformity.
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“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense. An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
— Ayn Rand Primary source“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source