Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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 ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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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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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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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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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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