Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
More Jack London Quotes
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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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.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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