The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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 would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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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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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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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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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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Affluence means influence.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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