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.
JACK LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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