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.
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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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