I would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDONI write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
More Jack London Quotes
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Affluence means influence.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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