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 LONDONThere 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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