To be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDONMan rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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