One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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 write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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