/ 7:15 PM

I'm about to finish reading this book by this Russian writer, Ayn Rand, and I must say that I think she's gonna be one of my favourite writers! I won't elaborate now, but as usual, I wanna post some extracts which are interesting to me.. The extracts will be quite random, with no head or tail, but what the heck..X)

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[A highly regarded writer giving a famous but arrogant actress, Claire Nash, a harsh point of view]

(Arrogant actress says) "They think that to be a star means nothing at all!"
(Writer says) "Precisely, Miss Nash. It means nothing at all."
Claire spilled her drink on her blue satin dress without noticing it. "You're saying that to me?" she breathed.
"...I believe that screen actresses are not great artists, rare talents, exceptions. They are not one in a thousand, they are just one out of the thousand, chosen by..."
"By?"
"...chance."

** Thoughts ** Yeah, this caused me to think of how it is possible that one really does have some talent.. And one can really succeed if given the chance.. But does that make oneself the only one who deserves the chance? Any other person could be just as talented and deserving.. So maybe all of us should learn to not just be all bitter about it when we don't get our lucky break.. We must realize that we are not the only ones trying to make something of our lives in this world..

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They are fools, Claire thought, sitting in her hotel room, all of them just blind, lazy fools. It was their job to find talent, yet they did not see it, because... because it seemed that they didn't give a damn. Who had said that to her before, so long ago? Then she remembered who had said it, and the cold, mocking eyes of the speaker, and she jumped to her feet with a new determination; a new determination and a brand-new feeling of loneliness.

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Ayn Rand's views:

'I believe - and I want to gather all the facts to illustrate this - that the worst curse on mankind is the ability to consider ideals as something quite abstract and detached from one's everyday life. The ability of living and thinking quite differently, in other words eliminating thinking from your actual life. This applied not to deliberate and conscious hypocrites, but to those more dangerous and hopeless ones who, alone with themselves and to themselves, tolerate a complete break between their convictions and their lives, and still believe that they have convictions. To them - either their ideals or their lives are worthless - and usually both.'

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[A letter to a passionate actress]

'Dear Miss Gonda,

I am not a regular movie fan, but I have never missed a picture of yours. There is something about you which I can't give a name to, something I had and lost, but I feel as if you're keeping it for me, for all of us. I had it long ago, when I was very young. You know how it is: when you're very young, there's something ahead of you, so big that you're afraid of it, but you wait for it and you're so happy waiting. Then the years pass and it never comes. And then you find, one day, that you're not waiting any longer. It seems foolish, because you didn't even know what it was you were waiting for. I look at myself and I don't know. But when I look at you--I do.

And if ever, by some miracle, you were to enter my life, I'd drop everything, and follow you, and gladly lay down my life for you, because, you see, I'm still a human being.'

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[Conversation between husband and wife]

'Wife': And a mayonnaise mixer. And an electric washing machine. And it's about time to be thinking about a new car, too. The old one's a sight. And...

'Husband': Look, you don't understand. I don't want anything that we need.

'Wife': What?

'Husband': I want something I don't need at all.

'Wife': George Perkins! Have you been drinking?

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"You see, I'm not unhappy at all. In fact, I'm a very happy man--as happiness goes. Only there is something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of life noone has ever lived, but should."

"You know it? Why don't you live it?"

"Who does? Who can? Who ever gets a chance at the... the very best possible to him? We all bargain. We take the second best. That's all there is to be had. But the...the God in us, it knows the other... the very best... which never comes."

"And... if it came?"

"We'd grab it--because there is a God in us."

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[Conversation between two lovers]

"...We'll start from scratch, from the beginning of the world--our world."

"You're not afraid?"

(smiling softly) "I'm terribly afraid. I've never been happy before."

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Well! This post didn't turn out to be as long as I thought it would be.. Didn't include all the extracts that I singled out.. Well, I'm gonna stop blogging now anyhow.. Spent quite a bit of time on the com already.. I'm off to do other stuff! You may wanna check out Ayn Rand's writings yeah?

write about yourself here like how you lived through a crisis like the morrocian crisis. erps, have you studied about that before and about your test, how easy it is and how much confidence you have to pass and get all A1s for all subjects, add in your own wish here, and what you would do if target is not reached, like slash your wrist, eat many many painkiller pills at one shot and die. lol it's suicidal thoughts. stay away from that. but you need to enter a reality, everyone's doing that- it's the trend, so why not follow it. unless you want to be an odd one out. cause slashing wrist is soo common in girls school not in boys school. boys suicide, just like die gracefully from 30th storey, just look on the bright side, maybe you have lived in a lie too long and so you have found out the turth now, just think. optimist wins. you have entered into a world of reality



We know life's hard, truth is hard, lies are hard, they are all hard to accept when they have been found out, and i'm rushing history homework on the Abyissian Crisis about Italy and Abyssia going into war and that the League Of Nations cannot stop this from happening, and beacuse they are formed by means to stop war and peace-keep the countries together, they have thus failed to achieve that. I think i tend to hold a class for history instead of telling you about me, i'm basically a what subject-realted lover (humanities) and thus I am more analytical and critical about things, and likes to study about dead people, haha. lol. it's history what can you expect and also geography, it amazes me. I really like it alot, so what have you? Again to find this answer you need to enter into your own reality and reflect




it's amazing. amzing how people change the way of things, like how I used to hate outdoors in Band felt it was a complete waste of time, i've acquired to like it more, i guess people change, their thereotical means and applications in life just goes on into a new direction, and see things in another perspective, i guess- it's all in the mind. It really amazes me how these comes into action, from someone so pessimistic has changed his own view of things, and thus my friend is scoring much better, being more optimisitc and not think of his old way of suicidal thoughts, which are pretty daunting. and thus we need to see things, in another light, another perspective and another new way, to enable us to open up our minds, and make more new things, the new way it is. done with the old back with the new

i've hiatus-ed.

/ 7:15 PM

I'm about to finish reading this book by this Russian writer, Ayn Rand, and I must say that I think she's gonna be one of my favourite writers! I won't elaborate now, but as usual, I wanna post some extracts which are interesting to me.. The extracts will be quite random, with no head or tail, but what the heck..X)

-----

[A highly regarded writer giving a famous but arrogant actress, Claire Nash, a harsh point of view]

(Arrogant actress says) "They think that to be a star means nothing at all!"
(Writer says) "Precisely, Miss Nash. It means nothing at all."
Claire spilled her drink on her blue satin dress without noticing it. "You're saying that to me?" she breathed.
"...I believe that screen actresses are not great artists, rare talents, exceptions. They are not one in a thousand, they are just one out of the thousand, chosen by..."
"By?"
"...chance."

** Thoughts ** Yeah, this caused me to think of how it is possible that one really does have some talent.. And one can really succeed if given the chance.. But does that make oneself the only one who deserves the chance? Any other person could be just as talented and deserving.. So maybe all of us should learn to not just be all bitter about it when we don't get our lucky break.. We must realize that we are not the only ones trying to make something of our lives in this world..

-----

They are fools, Claire thought, sitting in her hotel room, all of them just blind, lazy fools. It was their job to find talent, yet they did not see it, because... because it seemed that they didn't give a damn. Who had said that to her before, so long ago? Then she remembered who had said it, and the cold, mocking eyes of the speaker, and she jumped to her feet with a new determination; a new determination and a brand-new feeling of loneliness.

-----

Ayn Rand's views:

'I believe - and I want to gather all the facts to illustrate this - that the worst curse on mankind is the ability to consider ideals as something quite abstract and detached from one's everyday life. The ability of living and thinking quite differently, in other words eliminating thinking from your actual life. This applied not to deliberate and conscious hypocrites, but to those more dangerous and hopeless ones who, alone with themselves and to themselves, tolerate a complete break between their convictions and their lives, and still believe that they have convictions. To them - either their ideals or their lives are worthless - and usually both.'

-----

[A letter to a passionate actress]

'Dear Miss Gonda,

I am not a regular movie fan, but I have never missed a picture of yours. There is something about you which I can't give a name to, something I had and lost, but I feel as if you're keeping it for me, for all of us. I had it long ago, when I was very young. You know how it is: when you're very young, there's something ahead of you, so big that you're afraid of it, but you wait for it and you're so happy waiting. Then the years pass and it never comes. And then you find, one day, that you're not waiting any longer. It seems foolish, because you didn't even know what it was you were waiting for. I look at myself and I don't know. But when I look at you--I do.

And if ever, by some miracle, you were to enter my life, I'd drop everything, and follow you, and gladly lay down my life for you, because, you see, I'm still a human being.'

-----

[Conversation between husband and wife]

'Wife': And a mayonnaise mixer. And an electric washing machine. And it's about time to be thinking about a new car, too. The old one's a sight. And...

'Husband': Look, you don't understand. I don't want anything that we need.

'Wife': What?

'Husband': I want something I don't need at all.

'Wife': George Perkins! Have you been drinking?

-----

"You see, I'm not unhappy at all. In fact, I'm a very happy man--as happiness goes. Only there is something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of life noone has ever lived, but should."

"You know it? Why don't you live it?"

"Who does? Who can? Who ever gets a chance at the... the very best possible to him? We all bargain. We take the second best. That's all there is to be had. But the...the God in us, it knows the other... the very best... which never comes."

"And... if it came?"

"We'd grab it--because there is a God in us."

-----

[Conversation between two lovers]

"...We'll start from scratch, from the beginning of the world--our world."

"You're not afraid?"

(smiling softly) "I'm terribly afraid. I've never been happy before."

-----

Well! This post didn't turn out to be as long as I thought it would be.. Didn't include all the extracts that I singled out.. Well, I'm gonna stop blogging now anyhow.. Spent quite a bit of time on the com already.. I'm off to do other stuff! You may wanna check out Ayn Rand's writings yeah?