The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONAnd 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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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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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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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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 aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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