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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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Don’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.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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