Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDONI’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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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