Ayn Rand

Friday Unrelated Information

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1. The latest report from people in the know tells me that I may be closing on the house as early as February 4th. That’s next Friday. The Friday one week from today. Oh my god.

2. Look at this fabric that has flying squirrels and Sphinxes on it. What a shame I need to buy appliances instead of fabric.

3. Let’s all think of this quote from Ayn Rand, because Ayn wouldn’t panic at the thought of moving:
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

And Now, A Reading From Atlas Shurgged

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She had always been…the motive power of her own happiness. For once, she wanted to feel herself carried by the power of someone else’s achievement. As men on a dark prairie liked to see the lighted windows of a train going past…the sight of power and purpose that gave them reassurance in the midst of empty miles and night–so she wanted to feel it for a moment, a brief greeting, a single glimpse, just to wave her arm and say: Someone is going somewhere.

(Related: This is pretty funny.)