“Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?”

—  Ayn Rand, book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982

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