Status Updates From The Fountainhead

Why did I go in thinking this was a sci fi?

“ From the beginning of history, the two antagonist have stood face-to-face: the creator and the secondhander. When the first creator invented the wheel, the first secondhander responded. He invented altruism.”

Really great monologue by toohey

“‘There’s so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions,’ said Wynand. ‘I’ve always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. There are books I liked at the age of sixteen. I still like them.’”

“ The independent man kills them— because they don’t exist within him and that’s the only form of existence they know. Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence. Notice the malice toward an independent man they know. They’re afraid. You’re a reproach.”

I'm going to explode