You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDONToo much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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