I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONLife, 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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