A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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 function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Affluence means influence.
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