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.
JACK LONDONYou 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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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 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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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