A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDONLove 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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 ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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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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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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 most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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