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.
JACK LONDONI was five years old the first time I got drunk.
More Jack London Quotes
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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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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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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