The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
JACK LONDONShe was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
More Jack London Quotes
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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 write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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