You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDONDon’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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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