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.
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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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