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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Jack London

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDON

Art Conquer Greatness Man
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.
JACK LONDON

Couple Desire Fulfill Love Nature Pain Peace Possession Satisfaction
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
JACK LONDON

Growth Hurt Suffering Weakness
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDON

Man Poet Writing
But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDON

Change Judgement Kind Man Myself Taste
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
JACK LONDON

Law Lie Man Shame
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDON

Ghost Greatness Life Silence Wake Up Way Winter
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDON

Better Goodness Joke Measurement Poem Quick
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDON

Encouragement Fear Growth Himself
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDON

Live Myself Self Love Thinking World Worth
In a saturated population life is always cheap.
JACK LONDON

Cheap Life Poor Population
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
JACK LONDON

Brilliance Burn Choice Fire Myself Spark
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDON

Death Existence Fear Life Mercy Misunderstood
A man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDON

Law Man Power
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
JACK LONDON

Animal Eat Food Life Live
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON

End Play Yourself

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