Atlas Shrugged, Part 3 Chapter 1: Atlantis

Posted by nsnelson 9 years, 7 months ago to Books
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Summary: Dagny crash lands in the Gulch, and meets John Galt (and others). She takes a tour, and hears their stories.

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Atlas Shrugged was written by Ayn Rand in 1957.

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  • Posted by nsnelson 9 years, 7 months ago
    Dagny to Wyatt: She smiled. “I know, this is a place where one employs nothing but aristocrats for the lousiest kinds of jobs.”
    “They’re all aristocrats, that’s true,” said Wyatt, “because they know that there’s no such thing as a lousy job – only lousy men who don’t care to do it.”
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    Galt: “Miss Taggart,” he said, “we have no laws in this valley, no rules, no formal organization of any kind. We come here because we want to rest. But we have certain customs, which we all observe, because they pertain to the things we need to rest from. So I’ll warn you now that there is one word which is forbidden in this valley: the word ‘give.’”
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    Dagny to Galt: “That night… twelve years ago… a spring night when you walked out of a meeting of six thousand murderers – that story is true, isn’t it?”
    “Yes.”
    “You told them that you would stop the motor of the world.”
    “I have.”
    “What have you done?”
    “I’ve done nothing, Miss Taggart. And that’s the whole of my secret.”
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    Galt to Dagny: “Didn’t you name a railroad line after me?”
    “Oh!... Yes… But I named it after an enemy.”
    He smiled. “That’s the contradiction you had to resolve sooner or later, Miss Taggart.”
    “It was you… wasn’t it? … who destroyed my Line…”
    “Why, no. It was the contradiction.”
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    “Our first rule here, Miss Taggart,” he [Galt] answered, “is that one must always see for oneself.”
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  • Posted by nsnelson 9 years, 7 months ago
    Midas Mulligan to John Galt: “Well, what do we do now? There’s something we hadn’t provided for: the first scab.”
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    “Don’t move, Miss Taggart. You’re hurt.”
    “You know me?” Her voice was impersonal and hard.
    “I’ve known you for many years.”
    “Have I known you?”
    “Yes, I think so.”
    “What is your name?”
    “John Galt.”
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  • Posted by nsnelson 9 years, 7 months ago
    “She was looking up at the face of a man who knelt by her side, and she knew that in all the years behind her, this was what she would have given her life to see: a face that bore no mark of pain or fear or guilt. The shape of his mouth was pride, and more: it was as if he took pride in being proud.”
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  • Posted by nsnelson 9 years, 7 months ago
    “When she opened her eyes, she saw sunlight, green leaves and a man’s face. She thought: I know what this is. This was the world as she had expected to see it at sixteen – and now she had reached it – and it seemed so simple, so unastonishing, that the thing she felt was like a blessing pronounced upon the universe by means of three words: But of course.”
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