Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
JACK LONDONI would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
More Jack London Quotes
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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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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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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