""But this - she thought with a shudder - was the state in which they lived, all those people whom she had never understood, this was the state they desired, this rubber reality, this task of pretending, distorting, deceiving, with the credulous stare of some Mr. Thompson's panic-bleary eyes as one's only purpose and reward. Those who desired this state - she wondered - did they want to live?"
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, pg 1109
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, pg 1109