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 LONDONSocialism, 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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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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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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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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