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The Importance of Rand’s Fiction It must be the most common opening of all the letters received by Rand’s publishers, not to mention the many articles and blog posts about Rand that appear daily: “Atlas Shrugged changed my life.”
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Victor Hugo
“She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Ayn Rand
“She was twelve years old when she told Eddie Willers that she would run the railroad when they grew up. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. to hell with that, she thought--and never worried about it again.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

David McCullough
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)”
David McCullough

Ayn Rand
“It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Victor Hugo
“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”
Victor Hugo

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