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.
JACK LONDONI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
More Jack London Quotes
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to 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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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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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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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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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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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I 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.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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