Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDONThe most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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