If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
JACK LONDONHis conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
More Jack London Quotes
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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