Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONAffluence means influence.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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 was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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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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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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