I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
JACK LONDONHis 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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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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