The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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