One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONI 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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 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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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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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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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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