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.
JACK LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
More Jack London Quotes
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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