WHEN THE WORDS COME OUT ....

Favorite Excerpts From The Fountainhead

Confrontation at its finest. The struggle to believe and to find something to believe in is all in the strength of the individual or in the words of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead.

Okay after 6 months I have finally completely The Fountainhead. No I am not that slow of a reader and yes I have read some other books in between, but every time I thought I was done The Fountainhead someone would bring up something to me, that I felt like I missed (for example CraigerTiger claims there to be a rape scene that I just don’t see).

I am closing the book and will probably re-open it again to re-read eventually, as it is truly amazing and there is a lot to take in. Mentally I enjoyed the challenge of this book and the depth in description of each character.

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Here are a few of my favorite excerpts from the book that I don’t want to forget:

“Why do you always stare at me?” she asked sharply. She thought with relief that words were the best means of estrangement. She had denied everything they both knew by naming it.”

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“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.”

-Howard Roark-

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“Surely you’ve seen through that particular stupidity. I mean the one that
claims the pig is the symbol of love for humanity—the creature that accepts
anything. As a matter of fact, the person who loves everybody and feels at home
everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form
of depravity can outrage him.”

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“The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought—while
his hand moved rapidly—what a power there was in words; later, for those who
heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution,
like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the
scientists have never discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens
when a thought takes shape in words.” p.642