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.
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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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 most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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