Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONI write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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