One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
More Jack London Quotes
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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 function of man is to live, not to exist.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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 Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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