The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDONI would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
More Jack London Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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His 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.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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