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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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