As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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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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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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 would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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