The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDONThe function of man is to live, not to exist.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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 scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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