Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDONLove is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
More Jack London Quotes
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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 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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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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