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.
JACK LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
More Jack London Quotes
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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 would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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