I would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDONDon’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
More Jack London Quotes
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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