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Albert J. Nock Quotes

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: October 13, 1870 - August 19, 1945

Topics

Mind You Stomach Like Much How

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

Strength Women Courage Man Way Most

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

Me Fate Play Actor Stage Production

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Love Think Feelings Duty Line Own

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Nature Technology History Culture

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

Say Become Days Because Well Whole

With every problem comes a gift in hand.

Gift Problem Hand Every

I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.

Work Nature Myself Name Remember

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

I Am Admire Understand May Willing

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Susan B. Anthony

Struggle Think Die Liberty Hard

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible - abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

Good Time Together Childhood Fun

I had a very curly perm in the '80s, thanks to the 'Way You Make Me Feel' Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.

Girl Me Feel You Curly Way

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Sometimes Narrative Little Closer

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