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 LONDONShow me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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