"By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."

-- Claudia Roth

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“Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.”
“This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.”
“I'm pretty, for lack of a better word, happy-go-lucky. I take things very seriously, but I'm very aware of people around me. I like to be part of a group that's working together towards something positive.”
“If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?”
“Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking”
“I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'”

Source : "‘Ready Player One’: An Interview with Author Ernest Cline". Interview with Rebecca Serle, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.
“Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.”
“The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.”

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